My favorite books of 2020In many ways, this year has been a year, unlike any other, the worldwide pandemic being the most significant when you look at it broadly. But for us chess fans, it has been a great year: the cancelation or postponement of …

The Legendary Serbian GM Borislav Ivkov Shares His Memories Of Bobby Fischer Elite Grandmaster and the first ever World Junior Chess Champion (1951), living legend Borislav Ivkov (85) played Bobby Fischer a total of ten times at classical ti …

Carsten Hansen is a FIDE Master and FIDE Trainer, residing in Bayonne, New Jersey. He has written twenty-eight books, mostly on chess opening, the recent of which is "The Full English Opening" (New In Chess 2018). His next book, "Daily Chess Tr …

Grandmaster Michael Rohde, a Brilliancy Prize winner at the 1986, 1987 and 1988 US Championships, US Open Champ in 1991 (and equal first in 2007), wrote a popular “Game of the Month” column in Chess Life from 1991-2001 and is author of Play t …

Josip Asik is a FIDE master and Editor-in-Chief of the American Chess Magazine TRAPPING YOUR PREY IN THE CARO-KANN Have you been told not to move the same piece twice in the opening? Add to that the warning that under no circumstances …