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Originally Posted by Benjola
Well, you are right yes but I started from scratch with Capablanca's 'Chess Fundamentals' followed by 'My System' and 'Fundamental Chess endings' Muller/Lamprecht and have 3 more chess ebooks on general chess principles waiting after that and I have a hard copy of Fischer's 60 memorable games too so I figured I should get something on openings that I like to learn and play.
Nothing wrong with that imo and I already have 2 books on King's Indian and there's a ton of videos on YouTube explaining the strategy behind first few moves on all openings so I think I'm good on learning material until end of this year anyway.
Thanks for at least answering the post though.
If you're truly a beginner, you're spending WAY too much time reading books and not enough time playing. Simply studying tactics and playing long games against better opponents is, by far, the fastest route to progress. At a beginner level, you can read all the books you want but due to your inexperience, will fail to appropriately apply the concepts in them.
Play more. Preferably games that are 35/5 and longer. Review them afterwards and work on tactics. That's the fast track to 1400+.