Just common sense YTRREFS

Who is the greatest chess player of all time? Hard to say. But one of the people on the list is arguably Emanuel Lasker. He was the second o...

Winning chess strategies YTRREFS

Chess strategy is one of the most elusive and difficult parts of chess. Compared to the direct and transparent world of chess tactics, strat...

Chess tactics for champions YTRREFS

Chess is 99% tactics. At least, that’s what some people say. Whether that is correct or not does not really matter, because either way you s...

Blindfold chess YTRREFS

Are you impressed by people who can play chess without seeing the board? For the uninitiated, this is a very impressive display of skill. Bu...

Questions of modern chess theory YTRREFS

A Soviet classic - that's what it says on the front cover. And for good reason, I think. At the beginning of this year, I decided I woul...

Let’s Go! YTRREFS

Now it's time for something completely different. As you probably know, I usually review chess books. But during summer I have spent so...

Reassess your chess YTRREFS

Some books don't really need an introduction. And this is one of them. But a blog post needs one, so here we are, in the middle of an in...