May the Best Player Win by Kyla Zhao – Review by Akshaj Bodla
May the Best Player Win” is a novel by Kyla Zhao. This novel is about May Li, a young girl who is passionate and striving in chess. May is an […]
How to Reassess Your Chess – 4th edition by Jeremy Silman review by Vahini Sadhuvenkata
“How to Reassess Your Chess,” by Jeremy Silman, is split into many chapters, but the central part concerns the imbalances. They include piece activity, pawn structure, space, material, key files/squares, […]
The Gijon International Chess Tournaments, 1944 – 1965: A History with Biographies and 213 Games by Pedro Mendez Castedo and Luis Mendez Castedo
Not all stories need 100,000 words. McFarland Books recognized this and has begun to expand past the large thorough biographies they are known for publishing into historical works that examine […]
Fred Reinfeld: The Man Who Taught America Chess with 282 Games by Alex Dunne
Fred Reinfeld: The Man Who Taught America Chess with 282 Games by Alex Dunne, who is the correspondence chess director for U S Chess. Dunne’s lightly researched book attempts to […]
Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi: A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games
Andy Soltis’ new book, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi: A Chess Multibiography with 207 Games explores the lives of four of the top Soviet chess players during the Fischer era. […]
Neumann, Hirschfeld and Suhle: 19th Century Berlin Chess Biographies with 711 Games
Neumann, Hirschfeld and Suhle: 19th Century Berlin Chess Biographies with 711 Games by Hans Renette and Fabrizio Zavatarelli is the most recent in McFarland’s coverage of nineteenth century European chess […]
The Princess, the Knight, and the Lost God: A Chess Story – Review by Kanishk Ramprasath
I just read The Princess, the Knight, and the Lost God: A Chess Story, and it is an amazing fantasy book. Children would absolutely love it. The plot is wonderful, […]
The Princess, the Knight, and the Lost God: A Chess Story – Review by Samika Nettem
This book is such a beautiful story filled with exciting plots and charming characters. Each page of this story grabs your attention and makes you wonder what happens next since […]
British Chess Literature to 1914: A Handbook for Historians
Tim Harding’s new book British Chess Literature to 1914: A Handbook for Historians highlights noted chess columns, magazines, and even books from before the First World War. As a handbook, […]
San Francisco 1995 by James Eade
San Francisco 1995 by James Eade Piatagorsky 1966, AVRO 1938, Zurich 1953. These top rated tournaments are known by all and reported by many. There are few books, however, geared […]