book review

Chessable Course Review: Chess Destiny: Lessons from an Adult Improver and his Coach by Omar Mills (aka ChessVonDoom)

Conversational Chess Therapy For Chess Players Stuck Below 1200.

Jun 7 •

Book Review: Bobby Fischer and His World by John Donaldson

Chess Americana

May 3 •

Book Review: Botvinnik: Move by Move, by Cyrus Lakdawala

A Move by Move book that shows its age more than others (but it's still good)

Apr 5 •

Book Review: Chess Tactics from Scratch by Martin Weteschnik

A modern classic, and a shoo-in for intermediate-strength players.

Feb 15 •

Book Review: Chess in the Third Reich: How the Game was Played, Glorified, and Abused in Nazi Germany, 1933-45 by Taylor Kingston

A fascinating historical deep dive into the darkest period of German Chess. What can we learn? And how could it apply today?

Jan 25 •

Book Review: A Century of Chess Book I: 1900-1909

A decade's best chess hits

Jan 4 •

Book Review: The Real Paul Morphy, by Charles Hertan

Part Game Collection, Part Biography. A look at the whole of the American giant.

Dec 7, 2024 •

Book Review: Max Euwe's Best Games: The Fifth World Chess Champion, by GM Jan Timman

If you're looking for a collection of Euwe games, this book greatly simplifies that choice. And if you're not looking for one, what's wrong with you?

Nov 2, 2024 •

Chessable Course Review: Identifying Critical Moments in Chess by NM Ben Johnson

An excellent offering for club players from Chessable

Oct 11, 2024 •

Book Review: Alexander Alekhine Complete Games Collection Volume 2: 1921-1925

Alekhine's play levels up, but the translation is a slight downgrade.

Sep 7, 2024 •

Book Review: Nimzovich's My System FastTrack Edition, Edited by Alex Fishbein

Fishbein trims the fat on a century-old classic and retranslates it for the modern world

Aug 17, 2024 •

Chessable Course Review: The Checkmate Patterns Manual

About as "modern classic" a Chessable course can get

Jul 27, 2024 •

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