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>>8998255
960 is the best.

OP, you don't need bookz. I'm self-taught and I'm rated 2200 in 960 on lichess (started 2011).
Once you grasped the basics you only need to study tactics, compositions, end game studies and games by grandmasters. Playing blindfold is a good practice, too, you should try it out once you reach 1600. Memorizing chess games like poems can be helpfull, too. It's all about visualizing the board in your mind.


But the best advice I can give you is not to play chess at all. It'll fuck up your brain. It's extremly exhausting. It's highly addictive. It ruined my perception. I dream chess, I see chess positions in people faces; it's a passion I hate, it's a curse.

Nowadays I narrowed playing chess down to two games a day. Quitting is impossible for me, it makes me pugnaciously; my mind is empty and bored without the challenge that chess gives me.

The only good thing I discovered through chess is the asthetic pleasure I get from solving chess compositions, undoubtedly the highest form of art I know. But trust me, it isn't worth the site effects.