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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 5748268" data-attributes="member: 31216">My brother and I regularly play Chess with Friends together -- we usually have two games going at any given time.I learned to play chess as a teenager, but only played occasionally with friends. After my teen years, I'd go two, three, four, maybe more years between games.My brother learned to play chess as an adult, but I don't really know at what age. He has played much more often than I over the last decade or so.When we started CwF, I figured we'd be pretty evenly matched, but we are not. I'm shocked, actually. He wins only about 1 in 15 games. (We've played probably 100 games.)The CwF app shows the last ten games, and usually, (like right now), it shows I won them all. When he wins, his immediate thought and question is whether I let him win. (I never throw a game. That wouldn't be fun or honest for either of us.) I really don't think I'm all that great a chess player, and I don't see anything that he is doing really wrong consistently, so I can't give him any useful advice. I've tried, and he has gotten better, (from winning 1 in 40 to 1 in 15). He actually had 3 wins in a 10 game list one time, but then lost the next 20.I'm thinking about getting him a chess strategy book for Christmas. I've checked Amazon, and there are a lot of these, so I'm looking for advice on which to give him. I don't want to give something like Chess for Dummies. Although the X for Dummies books are usually really good, I'd rather give him something a little less, well, "Dummy."What chess strategy book do you suggest? Nothing really deep, but something more than for a complete novice.Bullgrit</blockquote>

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