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…
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…
Get to know our Forward Chess author of the month for October 2023, Nikolaos Ntirlis. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your chess career I learned chess in…
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’”…
Hello everyone! This is Davorin Kuljasevic, a Croatian Grandmaster, chess author, and coach. My first two books ‘Beyond Material’ and ‘How to Study Chess on Your Own’ have already been…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
We all know that studying endgames is fundamental to chess improvement, but staring at an endgame study for hours and needing to remember all your calculated moves in a million-move…