Review: Your Chess Battle Plan
Book Review of Your Chess Battle Plan by Neil McDonald “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower. As the title suggests, this is a book about planning…
Review: A Modern Guide to Checkmating Patterns
Review of A Modern Guide to Checkmating Patterns “Since all the pieces differ among themselves according to their range and rules of movement, each of them has its favorite ‘profession’”…
Review: Small Steps 2 Success – Mastering Passed Pawn Play
Book Review of Small Steps 2 Success “The passed pawn is a criminal, which belongs under lock and key.” – Aron Nimzowitsch in “My System” (Quality Chess edition, 2007) It’s…
Review: The Road to Reykjavik & Fischer – Spassky 1972
Review of The Road to Reykjavik and Fischer – Spassky 1972 “When I was eleven, I just got good.” – Bobby Fischer. The year 2022 was the 50th anniversary of…
Review: The Fully-Fledged French
Book Review of The Fully-Fledged French “I have never in my life played the French Defense, which is the dullest of all openings.” - Wilhelm Steinitz. While former World Champion…
Review: Chess Structures
Book Review of Chess Structures - A Grandmaster Guide “Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position.” –…
Review: Spassky’s Best Games
Review of Spassky's Best Games “Boris Spassky was my first chess idol.” – Former World Champion, Garry Kasparov. Former World Champion Boris Spassky is arguably now best known for losing…
Review: The London System in 12 Practical Lessons
Review of The London System in 12 Practical Lessons “ is not a frequent guest in games at the highest level...yet anyone not aspiring to world championship level may rest…
Review: Advanced Chess Tactics
Review of Advanced Chess Tactics, 2nd edition “Long variation, wrong variation” – Bent Larsen, as quoted by the author in this book. Despite its title, this is not your average…
Review: Learn from Bent Larsen
Book review of Learn from Bent Larsen “Of the many chess masters I have met, Bent is the most original.” – Former World Champion, Anatoly Karpov. The great Danish champion…