A first book for a chess beginner I am thinking about getting my first chess book. After making a bit of research, people recommend to not worry about opening and endings and start with a primer on general strategy. That description lead me to a book called "Logical chess: Move by move" by Irving Chernev, I was wondering if this is an appropriate book for this matter, or is there a must-own bible for the beginner that I missed.

For more information about my level, I pretty much just played chess online for a couple of months, and I would like to get a bit more serious, and start improving my game by doing more than just playing.

Edit: Following the advice of Mark Goodwin, here comes my best game, according to Stockfish

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1. d4 e6 2. e4 Bb4+ 3. c3 Be7 4. Nf3 Nc6
5. Be2 h6 6. O-O d6 7. Be3 a6 8. c4 Bd7
9. d5 Ne5 10. Nxe5 dxe5 11. Nc3 Nf6 12. Rb1 O-O
13. Qc2 c6 14. Rbd1 cxd5 15. cxd5 exd5 16. Nxd5 Nxd5
17. Rxd5 Rc8 18. Qd2 Bc6 19. Rxd8 Rfxd8 20. Qa5 f6
21. Bb6 Rd7 22. Bg4


I didn't meant to 12. Rb1, was a mouse slip, although I wanted to do Rc1 which, according to Stockfish again, isn't much better.
You might want to post your best game here (cut and paste the pgn is sufficient). There are many different stages of 'beginner' in chess.

Anyways, what I suggest you do is to:

1) Keep playing every day. Experience is king.

2) Learn basic opening principles - you do not want to get caught out with your king in the centre, your pieces sitting on the first rank, or your rooks dusting off in the corners.

3) learn all the basic mating patterns - what good is being up two pieces if you cannot finish him off?

4) Do chess tactics daily, without fail - chess24 has a pretty good chess tactics trainer and it adjusts to your level. You will lose games because of tactics more than anything else. You will win all your games because of tactics. I've been playing since 1973, and to this day, I do tactics every day.

5) record and review all your games (if you are playing online you are all set - all servers record the game for you), and maybe once a week or as frequently as you see fit, review your losses and understand where you went wrong. Make some friends online on your chess server with people who are better than you and ask them to review some of the games with you. This is the most single valuable thing you can do to improve your game.

6) Ignore all opening advice and play what you like. If you fail in the opening, understand why and fix it (books, better players, online resources, chess engines, etc.) If you really want to develop your chess openings at such a nubile stage, then Chessable is a good place to start and it's free, but unnecessary.

7) acquire a basic chess strategy book - someone mentioned Ludek Pachman's book but that might be too advanced, I think. You may grow into it, however. Jeremy Silman's Imbalances book(s) are popular. There are many.

8) Lastly mentioned, but not lastly important, learn the basic endgames necessary. 

Good Luck and Good Chess!