Book Review: Attacking Chess for Club Players
“Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it, checkmate ends the game.” - GM Nigel Short Our BOOK OF THE WEEK is Attacking Chess for Club…
Book Review: Mastering Opening Strategy
"I feel that the main reasons to buy an opening book are to give a good overview of the opening, and to explain general plans and ideas." - GM John…
Overloaded Pieces: When two is too much.
I still remember the last few days of my college life when I lived in a frugal way inside a small apartment room along with my other classmates. We cooked…
Chess Strategies for surviving the lockdown
With many of our team members in self-quarantine mode, we can't think of a better topic to write about than our current situation and how, as chess players, we can…
Author Files – Opening Repertoire: The Caro-Kann
Once again, our new video series Author Files provides an inside look into the book straight from the source, the book's author. Whether it is explaining some of the material…
The Art of Sacrifice in Chess
"A sacrifice is the natural product of the initiative." - GM Ivan Sokolov "Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack." - Wilhelm Steinitz (Former World Champion,…
The Center: A Modern Strategy Guide
"The nature of the central pawn structure determines the direction of the fight and the choice of strategy." - GM Alexander Kotov "I earned my first IM norm after studying…
Amateur to IM: Proven Ideas and Training Methods
“In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the…
My First Chess Opening Repertoire for Black
"... I feel that the main reasons to buy an opening book are to give a good overview of the opening, and to explain general plans and ideas. ..." -…
Getting better at problem solving: Observation and Pattern Recognition
Imagine a Grandmaster, say our favorite former World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal, staring at his chess board with a tilted head and hands on his cheek, contemplating his position for…