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A look at some of the greatest chess players who never became World Champions: Paul Morphy Adolf Anderssen Akiva Rubinstein Samuel Reshevsky David Bronstein Paul Morphy Paul Morphy’s (1837 – 1884) chess career was bri...
In this final article, we take a look at the modern World Champions all the way up to the newly crowned king, Ding Liren. Anatoly Karpov Garry Kasparov Vladimir Kramnik Viswanathan Anand Magnus Carlsen Ding Liren ...
In Part Two, we take a look at the Soviet Dominance on the World Championship throne, starting with Mikhail Botvinnik up until its disruption by Bobby Fischer: Mikhail Botvinnik Vasily Smyslov Mikhail Tal Tigran V. Petrosian...
Whilst we all remain on the edge of our seats watching the current World Chess Championship between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, let's take a look back at their predecessors. In this Part 1, we will travel back to the the first official W...
My career as an author did not come completely out of the blue. I have always loved writing, but there was another important argument that I gained from the practice of teaching chess. After I started providing courses for club chess players an...
It’s wrong to think of tactics successfully occurring because of super-clever moves in genuinely equal positions. For a winning combination to be possible, there must be something wrong with the other side’s position. In chess, you can...
The results are in! Here are the best books of 2022: Improve Your Chess Calculation by R.B Ramesh Think Like a Super-GM by Michael Adams and Philip Hurtado A Matter of Endgame Technique by Jacob Aagard The Taimanov-Schevenin...
What if I told you that practice doesn't make you perfect? I often hear that online tactics training is a savior of chess ambitions. People build castles in the air about how they play a dozen blitz games and solve a couple of puzzles each day...
At Forward Chess, we have a passion for books. We turn physical books into an interactive learning experience. Recently we converted Chess Fundamentals by Capablanca - a 100-year-old public domain book into a 21st-century digital reading experienc...
Review: Best Lessons of a Chess Coach: Extended Edition “Winning a game of chess is a matter of accumulating advantages’” The authors. This book is a new edition of a book that was originally published in 1993. There have ...
Book Review: Playing the Stonewall Dutch by Nikola Sedlak (Quality Chess Publishing) “Not a Dutch surely? That would be fine by me! … So it is a Dutch Defence. One of the openings which, just like most masters, I am very happy to pl...
It's not always that we see a World Number 5 Grandmaster thinking for almost six minutes and get self-destructed into a mate in one. In the recent Meltwater Champions Tour Final, Aronian blundered into a mate in one against Polish #1 Jan-Krzysztof...
Wouldn't it be nice if chess were as simple as hockey? We could just tell the beginner players "All you have to do is knock the king out of the board and that's it! You win!" But alas, chess is as complex as rocket science when it comes to idea...
Here's a tricky position to get the ball rolling. It's a simple position and easy to understand, which makes you go "OMG" every single move. So, you think the first Rook move that pops into your mind is winning? No? Did you find...
A hopeless position -- that feeling of our heart sinking like an old abandoned ship and our smile fading away as the time in your clock ticks down -- is something we have all faced, be in staring at our computer screens or in the heat of a face-to...
Imagine having to break down a large wall. Where do you begin? How do you go about it?I don't think it will be fair to blow up the wall or mow it down with a tank. That isn't allowed. All you have is the good old hammer and a couple of folks to ...
Imagine a pawn with bulging eyes, outstretched hands and with an open jaw trying to land a bite on fellow pieces. How funny would it be if pieces could actually roam around the board like zombies when they become “infected”? Odd, ...
When I think about Chess combinations, I am always reminded of a recipe for soup. The first time I tried to make one, someone gave me a simple piece of advice. "Just add all the veggies you love, and boil them away in a crockpot, ta-da! A simple s...
Remember the last time you tried to cook something and ended up screwing it? How did you figure out what went wrong? It was easy for me to find this out the last time I made such a mistake, even my neighbor knew it and my pet cat. Good that no o...
hello everyone! This month we crossed 500 published books on our platform! We wanted to celebrate this, so here's a cupcake to all our Chess.com readers! =) Now, back to our review of the amazing book "The Complete Chess Swindler" by David Sm...
This week Forward Chess hit an important milestone in its 7 years of existence - 500 published books and counting!! The journey has been a wonderful one with all its ups and downs. We thank our wonderful publishers, fantastic users who generously ...
Free Book project: As a part of our contribution to the chess community during this lockdown, we decided to offer a free book starting early this month. We felt that it's a wise choice to pick something that'll prove to be useful for players of a...
In chess, one of the most difficult Checkmates to master, and the one that rarely shows up in practical play is the double Knight versus Pawn Endgame. Even grandmasters have trouble when it does show up on the board. There are several examples whe...
There are two types of sacrifices, the obvious ones, and the not-so-obvious ones. Or, as Tal would put it, "The correct ones, and mine" Let's take an example. White to play and checkmate in two moves using a queen sacrifice! Don't worry, you can...
Imagine learning to swim by reading an article on Wikipedia or learning to drive a car by reading its manual. What's going to happen when you really put yourself out there behind the steering wheel? Well, I hope your fellow passengers are insure...
