Agreed with #10.
Do you look for a book for yourself or you want to teach someone. With your level it would be pretty useless to study 1-move forks.
lol, obviously that would not be good for me to study 1 move problems. If I wanted to practice patterns I would go to
blitztactics.com . It is for my students.
Why would you want to study games of GM's then you can study games of someone rated 1000 points higher? Have you even ever tried it? There are tons of instructional ones.
Also, I was kindly asking for book reccomendations and OnlySleeping gives me advices instead... Arguably incorrect adviced and certainly not the ones I wanted to hear.
If you are looking for a book with chess patterns, you should get:
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games from Laszlo Polgar. The ISBN for the book is 978-1579125547.
Another good one is:
1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations. I have an older version of the book. It seems it has been updated and the new ISBN is 978-1936490875.
I found the following books most suitable for you:
1001 chess exercices for beginners, Masetti, New in Chess
Tactics time 2, Tim Brennan, New in Chess,
this is also 1001 exercises for beginners, maybe there is a "Tactics time 1", I don't know, but you will find out easily.
I'm very sure, this is what you are looking for.
It's interesting, I can't find a book about engine games. Maybe look for correspondence games, there are many games purely played by engines. For example in a correspondence database there are a lot of games with comments.
"Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" is a good first tactics book for near-beginners, explaining things like back rank mates very well. It was one of the first chess books I read as a child. It's very old, but still seems to be available.
#16 huge thanks for the books list, I found it very convienient. Also nice idea of analysing correspondence games instead. For some weird reason I did not think of it myself.
#17 Sorry, but I am looking for a puzzle book, not a course. Also, it looks more or less outdated.
It's a "programmed learning text", which means though it's not all puzzles, a lot of it consists of exercises to solve, with good explanations of the solutions.
It's old definitely. I don't know if the current versions will be in descriptive or algebraic even, though most older books have been switched to algebraic by now. Is it really out-dated? I don't think there have been a lot of innovations in back rank mates since the 1970s. Though you might or might not like the writing style and layout.
There's a good list of recommended chess books for different levels here:
http://www.danheisman.com/recommended-books.htmlI'm not personally familiar with the lower level puzzle books in the list, but the list tends to reliable in its recs.