INTRODUCTION A couple of days ago, I talked to a very good friend of mine who also happens to be an ALMOST 2100 rated chess player. He is one of those guys who have an…
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Articles about chess books. Chess books compilations and chess books reviews.
My First Chessable Course: The Modern Defence Against Everything – Overview
Note: In this post, I am going to introduce/promote my own Chessable course titled The Modern Defence Against Everything. If you are unfamiliar with Chessable, you might want to check this review of the website…
5 Best Chess Books I Read in 2019 (And Another 13 Chess Book Reviews)
In this post, I will reflect on the chess books I read in 2019. You can find a similar post about non-chess books on my other blog Popsychle. The Year Of Sosonko In 2019, I…
Best Chess Training Books
INTRODUCTION At some point in their career,all chess players start racking their brains over the topic of chess improvement. Whether we are talking about a 1200 player hoping to jump rapidly to 1900, a 2500…
Endgame Strategy – Book review
INTRODUCTION Many great trainers say you should start learning chess from endgames. There are many reasons why that is correct, most important being endgames are the perfect setup for learning and improving deep and accurate…
Best chess books written by World Champions
Introduction Nowadays, publishing a chess book has become easier than ever before. Due to the accessibility of information chess knowledge has become available to almost anyone. Also, in the modern chess, the opening stage is more important…
Best chess beginner books
Best chess beginner books Everybody knows how confusing and difficult it is to learn something from the scratch. Chess, being the rich and complicated game it is, is by no means an exception. More experienced…
Best chess middle game books
Introduction In the previous post we have already identified chess middle game as the phase of the chess game that tends to be hardest to improve. The points mentioned in that post very much apply to…
Best chess endgame books
Chess endgame Bibles After assembling a list of best chess tactical books in the previous post and after writing a first post in the “endgame domain”, we thought that the next logical step is making…
Best chess tactics books
Chess tactical Bibles In some of the previous posts on this blog I have considered the subjects chess improvement and chess tactics. As I have mentioned there, I consider chess books as the best source for studying chess. Additionaly, the…
Dealing with d4 deviations – Book review
INTRODUCTION Every chess tournament I have participated in has had THAT moment. THAT moment when after refreshing the pairings in the solitude of your apartment and lamenting about how you got the Black pieces again,…
The Art of the Checkmate – Book review
INTRODUCTION Whenever I start remembering my first chess steps, I can’t resist paraphrasing the title of the famous Garry Kasparov autobiographic book – How chess imitates life. And for everybody thinking „Oh great, Vjeko, too much blitz…