Best Books of 2025 – Forward Chess Recap
We are two weeks into 2026. The holidays already feel like a distant memory. We're back at the board, moving our pieces. With 10 books already out, Forward Chess machinery…
Forward Chess 2024 Wrapped
Say Hello to the Best-Selling Books of 2024!It’s time for our very own Forward Chess Wrapped! Make 2025 your best year yet with these amazing titles. As we step into…
The Best Books of 2023
2023 was a big year for chess - we got a new World Chess Champion, a reigning Women's World Champion, and many amazing chess books that will be cemented in…
Latest Book Highlight: Oops! I Resigned One More Time!
Into the New Year we go, with all of our usual chess resolutions.Study more, avoid bullet chess, read more books, work on the endgame, drop the chess openings that are…
What is a Fianchetto?
The fianchetto. a classic strategy that sees the development of a bishop on the longest diagonal of the board, is a cornerstone of many openings and enables the game to…
Forward Chess Highlight: The Perfect Pirc-Modern
How time flies! Suddenly, we have a new version of Viktor Moskalenko’s The Perfect Pirc-Modern, flagged as ‘New Edition – 10 Years Later.’ View Book What is new to this…
June Highlight: The Exchange Sacrifice Unleashed
The art of the exchange sacrifice is a difficult one to master. Chess players are happy enough to sacrifice pawns left, right, and center in the opening and think nothing…
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,…
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…
A Journey Back in Time: Chess World Champions Part 2
In Part Two of learning about Chess World Champions, we take a look at the Soviet Dominance on the World Championship throne, starting with Mikhail Botvinnik up until its disruption…