Chessable Roundup: October 25, 2025
Ever felt stuck in chess because of too many candidate moves and too many ideas... with very few wins to show for it?
This week’s new releases are the antidote!
They teach you how to simplify sharp Sicilians and turn fuzzy middlegames into crystal-clear plans. You'll also learn how to run a Silman-style “position audit,” which tells you exactly which side of the board to play on and what to do next.
Let’s dive in.
Starting Out: Accelerated Dragon by GM Benjamin Bok
Love how hard the Sicilian fights for the win but hate how all the theory drowns you with "Too Much Information"? Try this Accelerated Dragon. In just 89 TMI-free lines, it turns up the pressure fast against 1.e4. All while dodging the sharp lines White throws at traditional Sicilians.
Rossolimo Rampage: Crush the 2...Nc6 Sicilians by IM Alexander Krastev
Humiliate the sharpest 2...Nc6 Sicilians with the Rossolimo's 2-step bishop burying sequence. By move 4, Black must put up with bad pawns plus an equally bad bishop... while you pounce on squares it can't reach and enjoy an "extra" piece.
The Reassess Your Chess Workbook by IM Jeremy Silman & IM Alex Banzea
Out of book, out of tactics, and unsure what to do? Run Silman's 7-point chess audit. It tells apart the key differences between Black and White. From here, you're shown how to find the move that plays to your position's strengths.
From Making Moves to Making Plans by WFM Kamaliya Bulatova
Replace "I have no idea what to do!" with clear and simple chess planning. Learn a European Youth Champion's newbie-friendly K2P Method. It focuses your attention on just 3 things — so you don't grow overwhelmed by subtleties and ideas that don't apply to your game.
The Old-School Gurgenidze: A Complete Repertoire vs. 1.e4 by Michael Green & GM Damian Lemos
Slow 1.e4 to a crawl with the Gurgenidze Defense. It locks White down on the light squares... while you pick apart their center or cramp their flanks. Includes 38 model games — so you can see how the lines unfold against real opponents.
On the Chessable blog, we reveal the results of a landmark study about the differences of men and women in chess.
It drew from nearly 30 years of data from over 680,000 players in the United States Chess Federation (USCF). So... does either side have a genetic advantage? Is the rating gap even real?
Read the post to find out!
New Study on Sex Differences in Chess Published in Journal, Supported by Chessable
That's a wrap for this week's roundup.
See you in the next one!
