As Capablanca would attest, endgame is the most important part of the game. “In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle…
Really excited about this book. A step by step method to become a Chess Expert through hard work and repetition. The most interesting analogy the author made was comparing Chess mastery to the time it took to get a 2-year…
The supposedly best book about chess visualization and blindfold chess (No, there is no such thing!). Skills that many claim to be the Holy Grail of chess excellence—contrary to the conventional wisdom of grinding through a shitload of tactics. It…
An highly acclaimed book just like its writer, IM Jeremy Silman. The bulletpoints and tips in this book are priceless and will save you a lot of time if, like me, you like to go straight to the point.
MCO used to be the number 1 mandatory book that every Correspondence Chess (aka Postal Chess in the old days) players should have. Now obsolete (last update in 2008), the book is still used these days by some Correspondence Chess…
My favorite chess book to date. A book describing the 30 most important principles of chess with examples took from more than 60 Paul Morphy’s chess games. The kind of book that I enjoy reading.
This list includes all the real (and fake) books features in the Netflix series “The Queens Gambit”. The first book shown in the show is: Modern Chess Openings by Richard Griffith and Walter Korn The book is borrowed to Beth Harmon…
The very first Chess book I’ve ever bought and red in my entire half a century on this Earth. My unpopular opinion: Personally, I’m not particularly a fan of Levy Rozman’s YouTube channel GothanChess. I find him annoying and he…
Three girls excelling in chess, a men’s game.. The Chess Experiment That Will Change the Way You Think László Polgar believed that geniuses are made, not born, and set out to prove it by creating a Chess prodigy through intense,…
