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…
Does Your Opponent Steal Your Pawns? Chess Tactics When Exchanging Pieces
You are sitting in a tournament hall, and your gaze locked on your opponent. All your attention is focused on an upcoming trade. He takes a piece, I take it…
Review: Looking for Trouble: Recognizing and Meeting Threats in Chess
Review: Looking for Trouble: Recognizing and Meeting Threats in Chess “Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.” – Savielly Tartakower. Books on tactics normally emphasise problems where the task…
Book Review: Winning Chess Brilliancies
Book Review: Winning Chess Brilliancies by GM Yasser Seirawan, Published by Everyman Chess. “Jeremy told me, “Yaz, more than anything else, students want a chess book that explains the reasons…
Book Review: The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces Of Chess Strategy
Review: The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces Of Chess Strategy “Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” – Savielly Tartakower. Irving…
Reviving Hans Kmoch’s Pawn Power in Chess for modern readers!
Converting Hans Kmoch’s Pawn Power in Chess from old descriptive notation to Algebraic! I recently had the opportunity to convert Hans Kmoch’s classic book Pawn Power in Chess to algebraic…
Book Review: The Philosopher and the Housewife
“By some ardent enthusiasts, chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be – what human nature mostly delights…
Book Review: Learn from the Legends 2: Chess Heroes at their Best
Review: Learn from the Legends 2: Chess Heroes at their Best “I have put all my energy, knowledge and emotions into every single book I have written since then, but…
Book Review: 100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know
“Chess is 99 percent tactics.” – Richard Teichmann.A thorough study of tactical positions is an essential requirement for chess mastery, and there are plenty of books on tactics, including two…
Book Review: Reimagining 1.e4
“Best by test.” – Bobby Fischer’s comment on his first move 1.e4 in his game against Arthur Bisguier in the New York State Open Championship, 1963. Opening specialist and Correspondence…