How should a chess player, be they amateur or professional, achieve their full potential? What's the best way to prepare psychologically for the game ...

The third volume of Elk and Ruby's treatise on Viktor Korchnoi, penned by FM Hans Renette and IM Tibor Karolyi, covers the period 1981-1991. This encompasses ...

Hikaru is a five-time US chess champion, ranked as high as second in the world with a stratospheric peak rating of 2816, the 10th highest of all time. ...

*** THE NEW WORLD CHESS CHAMPION *** On 12 December 2024 Gukesh D became the 18 th World Chess Champion, defeating Ding Liren by a score of 7.5-6.5. ...

Isaak Lipnitsky (1923-1959) was a leading Ukrainian chess player of the early 1950s as well as a celebrated chess theoretician and journalist, whose textbook ...

This theoretically solid opening repertoire for White, based on playing 5.d4 in the main line of the Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6) ...

Award-winning historian Sergey Voronkov has written a four-volume psychological biography of Alexander Alekhine, presenting the former world chess champion ...