Book Review: Winning by Nigel Short
Review: Winning “You cannot be serious.” – John McEnroe, berating a tennis umpire. Like John McEnroe in tennis, English GM Nigel Short has somewhat of a “bad boy” image in…
Book Review: Best Lessons of a Chess Coach: Extended Edition
Book Review: Best Lessons of a Chess Coach: Extended Edition by Sunil Weeramantry and Edward Eusebi (Mongoose Press) Best Lessons of a Chess Coach: Extended EditionPublisher: Mongoose PressAuthor: Sunil…
Book Review: Playing the Stonewall Dutch
Book Review: Playing the Stonewall Dutch by Nikola Sedlak (Quality Chess Publishing) Playing the Stonewall DutchPublisher: Quality Chess Author: GM Nikola Sedlak FC Release date: Jul 08, 2020 “Not a…
Best Sellers Update June
Love stats? We do too! We complied the top #3 best-selling books based on the stats from the last three months. Guess who the winners are? Top Three Best-Sellers from…
The Grandmaster Mindset
The Grandmaster Mindset by GM Alojzije Jankovic is an enjoyable read which increases the readers chess imagination. You contemplate the best move in a tactical position, learn a new theme,…
Book Review: Attacking Chess for Club Players
“Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it, checkmate ends the game.” - GM Nigel Short Our BOOK OF THE WEEK is Attacking Chess for Club…
Book Review: Mastering Opening Strategy
"I feel that the main reasons to buy an opening book are to give a good overview of the opening, and to explain general plans and ideas." - GM John…
Author Files – Opening Repertoire: The Caro-Kann
Once again, our new video series Author Files provides an inside look into the book straight from the source, the book's author. Whether it is explaining some of the material…
The Art of Sacrifice in Chess
"A sacrifice is the natural product of the initiative." - GM Ivan Sokolov "Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack." - Wilhelm Steinitz (Former World Champion,…
The Center: A Modern Strategy Guide
"The nature of the central pawn structure determines the direction of the fight and the choice of strategy." - GM Alexander Kotov "I earned my first IM norm after studying…