Book Review: A Guide To Chess Improvement
Review: A Guide to Chess Improvement: The Best of Novice Nook “No one gets good at chess quickly and without a lot of work; if that was possible I could…
Review: A Guide to Chess Improvement: The Best of Novice Nook “No one gets good at chess quickly and without a lot of work; if that was possible I could…
“Being a grandmaster-level practitioner, Dvoretsky found his true calling in research and teaching.” – Alexander Nikitin. The late IM Mark Dvoretsky was widely considered to be the greatest chess coach…
Review: Oops! I Resigned One More Time “No one ever won a game by resigning.” – Savielly Tartakower. Hollywood loves a sequel. If a movie does well at the box…
“My wife, kids, and dog don’t care what my rating is, but it helps my mental health to have a hobby that I love and that I know I will…
Author Daniel (Danny) Gormally is known for telling it how it is, and in this post, he does exactly that - but in the context of his latest book release…
Book Review of The Art of The Endgame - Revised Edition by Jan Timman “Closer to the game than problems, but distant enough to maintain elevated aesthetic criteria, endgame studies…
Book Review of Study Chess with Matthew Sadler “I suppose you could call this book a collection of my personal 'Eureka!' experiences, those wonderful moments when something complicated suddenly feels…
Book Review: Playing the English by Nikolaos Ntirlis “Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory…
Book Review of Say No to Chess Principles! “It is the aim of the modern school not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the…
Book Review of The Complete Chess Swindler by David Smerdon “Chess is in the last resort a battle of wits, not an exercise in mathematics. Theory helps you; but you…