Review: 100 Endgame Patterns You Must Know
Book Review of 100 Endgame Patterns You Must Know “Akiba, if you had lived in the Middle Ages you would have been burnt at the stake. What you do in…
Dvoretsky: World’s Best Chess Trainer
Mark Dvoretsky is known for many things; his success as a chess player, journalist, author, and most of all, as being the world's best chess trainer. In this post, we…
New Publisher: Chess Fortress
There's a new chess publishing house on the block - Chess Fortress! Co-founded by Grandmasters Branko Tadić and Miloš Perunović, their "goal is to create high-quality chess content that educates,…
Forward Chess Highlights: May
Who was ‘the Last Knight of the King’s Gambit?’ Such a romantic description, yet the name of the player, who was at the height of his powers during one of…
Chess Author of the Month: Wojciech Moranda
Get to know our Forward Chess author of the month for May 2023, Grandmaster Wojciech Moranda. 1. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your chess career! I learned…
A Chess Biography of Szymon Winawer
Broaden your chess history knowledge through the chess biography of Szymon Winawer, a Polish-born world top-10 chess player, who played against some of the most well-known historical chess giants such…
Historic Chess Games: Tartakower vs Reshevsky
Today we are looking at a 1937 Stockholm Olympiad game between Saviely Tartakower and Samuel Reshevsky. These two players were on top board for their respective countries. Ironically, the one…
Squeeze Play by Cyrus Lakdawala
When a boa constrictor latches onto its prey, it starts squeezing. Then when the prey exhales, the snake squeezes even tighter until eventually, the battle is won. We can relate…
A Journey Back in Time: Chess World Champions Part 3
In this final article, we take a look at the modern World Champions all the way up to the newly crowned king, Ding Liren. Anatoly Karpov Garry Kasparov Vladimir Kramnik…
Forward Chess Highlights: April
The English Defense (1. c4 b6 or 1. d4 e6 2. c4 b6) derives its name from the use and development of this unusual opening by Jonathan Speelman, Raymond Keene,…