Drawing and Not Winning in Chess: Janowski vs Blackburne
Here's an old game between the Polish-born Dawid Janowski (1868-1927) and the Englishman known as "The Black Death," Joseph Blackburne (1841-1924). At the time of the game, the pair were…
Celebrating Chess Champions: Vasily Smyslov
By Andrey Terekhov Vasily Smyslov, the 7th World Chess Champion, was born on this day, 102 years ago. He played in four chess World Championships from 1948 to 1958 and…
Author of the Month: Johan Hellsten
The Mastering...Strategy series has quite a long background. In the years 2003-2007 I was teaching chess at the University of Tarapacá in Arica, Chile. Its director Emilio Rodríguez was (still…
Forward Chess Highlights: February
There is an abundance of instructive chess games and positions in Chess Parallels 1: Strategy and Tactics and Chess Parallels 2: Endgames, the new brace of books celebrating the life,…
Author of the Month: Dan Heisman
I am honored to be Forward Chess’ Coach of the month! Thanks to all who made this possible. I am also happy to say that Forward Chess is now offering…
Author Spotlight: Jaan Ehlvest
I must express that there are no bad openings. There are unfortunately a lot of patzers who think that they made the wrong opening choices but the fact is that…
The Hidden Laws of Chess
Have you ever wondered how strong chess players immediately grasp what is happening in complex positions? The secret is pawn structures. The pawn structure dictates the game's flow, and different…
Using Forward Chess for Coaching
Forward Chess is here to help you out with using chess books for your chess lessons. With over 800 books in our library, as well as a vast range of…
Forward Chess Highlights: January
Given the bad news about the death at the end of 2022 of Mike Basman, the great English chess maverick, it seems timely to see a new book featuring one…
Author Spotlight: IM Herman Grooten
My career as an author did not come completely out of the blue. I have always loved writing, but there was another important argument that I gained from the practice…