Best Attacking Chess Books – Complete Guide
This guide to the best attacking chess books covers eight titles for club and advanced players, grouped by level and available on Forward Chess. Players below roughly 1400 will get…
Book Review: 100 Basic Endgames You Must Know by Jesus De la Villa
“In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else.” – José Raúl Capablanca. What is 100 Basic Endgames You Must Know about? 100 Basic Endgames…
Best Chess Calculation Books: Complete Guide
Last updated: September 2026 Calculation is a different skill from tactics, and it needs different books: tactics training teaches you to see that a combination exists, while calculation training teaches…
Best French Defense Chess Books: Complete Opening Guide
Last updated: August 2026 The French Defense begins 1.e4 e6. This guide is for players who already know the basics and want to actually play it — nine books, seven…
Best Chess Tactics Books: A Complete Guide
Last updated: August 2026 The best chess tactics book for you depends far more on your level and on how you want to train than on which book is "best"…
Book Review: Curaçao 1962 by Jan Timman
“The Russians have fixed world chess.” – Bobby Fischer after his disappointing result in Curaçao. Curaçao 1962 is Jan Timman's account of the 1962 Candidates' Tournament, the Cold War contest…
Best Grünfeld Defense Chess Books: Complete Opening Guide
Last updated: August 2026 The best Grünfeld Defense books, matched to how you want to play it: Alexander Delchev's The Safest Grünfeld Reloaded for a solid, low-maintenance repertoire, and Yaroslav…
Book Review: Kingwalks: Paths of Glory
What is Kingwalks: Paths of Glory about? Kingwalks: Paths of Glory by GM Yasser Seirawan and Bruce Harper is a collection of chess games built around one of the game's…
Best King’s Indian Defense Chess Books: Complete Opening Guide
Last updated: August 2026 The best King's Indian Defense books, matched to how you play it: Andrew Martin's First Steps: The King's Indian Defence to learn the ideas, Victor Bologan's…
Book Review: Maximize Your Chess Potential by Dan Heisman
What is Maximize Your Chess Potential! about? Maximize Your Chess Potential! by NM Dan Heisman is a collection of 164 expanded chess tips drawn from his long-running “Chess Tip of…