Does Your Opponent Steal Your Pawns? Chess Tactics When Exchanging Pieces
You are sitting in a tournament hall, and your gaze locked on your opponent. All your attention is focused on an upcoming trade. He takes a piece, I take it…
Review: Looking for Trouble: Recognizing and Meeting Threats in Chess
Review: Looking for Trouble: Recognizing and Meeting Threats in Chess “Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.” – Savielly Tartakower. Books on tactics normally emphasise problems where the task…
Book Review: Winning Chess Brilliancies
Book Review: Winning Chess Brilliancies by GM Yasser Seirawan, Published by Everyman Chess. “Jeremy told me, “Yaz, more than anything else, students want a chess book that explains the reasons…
Book Review: The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces Of Chess Strategy
Review: The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces Of Chess Strategy “Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” – Savielly Tartakower. Irving…
Reviving Hans Kmoch’s Pawn Power in Chess for modern readers!
Converting Hans Kmoch’s Pawn Power in Chess from old descriptive notation to Algebraic! I recently had the opportunity to convert Hans Kmoch’s classic book Pawn Power in Chess to algebraic…
Book Review: The Philosopher and the Housewife
“By some ardent enthusiasts, chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be – what human nature mostly delights…
Book Review: Learn from the Legends 2: Chess Heroes at their Best
Review: Learn from the Legends 2: Chess Heroes at their Best “I have put all my energy, knowledge and emotions into every single book I have written since then, but…
Book Review: 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know
“Chess is 99 percent tactics.” – Richard Teichmann.A thorough study of tactical positions is an essential requirement for chess mastery, and there are plenty of books on tactics, including two…
Book Review: Reimagining 1.e4
“Best by test.” – Bobby Fischer’s comment on his first move 1.e4 in his game against Arthur Bisguier in the New York State Open Championship, 1963. Opening specialist and Correspondence…
Book Review – 50 Mistakes You Should Know
Review: 50 Mistakes You Should Know “The mistakes are there, waiting to be made.” – Savielly Tartakower. Spanish GM Jesus de la Villa is perhaps best known for his series…