Best Chess Calculation Books: Complete Guide
Last updated: September 2026 Calculation is a different skill from tactics, and it needs different books: tactics training teaches you to see that a combination exists, while calculation training teaches…
Best Caro-Kann Defense Chess Books: Complete Opening Guide
Last updated: July 2026 The best Caro-Kann book for most club players is Opening Repertoire: The Caro-Kann by IM Jovanka Houska (Everyman Chess), a complete Black repertoire against every main…
Book Review: Attack and Counterattack in Chess
“My advice to today's young chess players is to read old chess books rather than overly imitate computer play.” – GM Lajos Portisch. Attack and Counterattack in Chess by prolific…
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…
Dark Mode is now live on Web Reader
At Forward Chess, our tech-team has been busy cooking a much-requested feature. We developed, tested, squished some bugs and polished it just for you! Our web reader now has a…
Book Review: Tal Botvinnik 1960
A masterful review of the meteoric book Tal Botvinnik (1960) by none other than the magician of Riga himself, Mikhail Tal. “You must take your opponent into a deep dark…
Grandmaster Mistakes – Chess Psychology
It's not always that we see a World Number 5 Grandmaster thinking for almost six minutes and get self-destructed into a mate in one. In the recent Meltwater Champions Tour…
Hidden features in Forward Chess
Here are the top tips from our team to help you make the most out of your Forward Chess experience. 1. Interactive board using Brush Tool - web app. Whether…
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…