The Fighting Dragon Update

A Book Review The Fighting Dragon: How to Defeat the Yugoslav Attack (Boston: Mongoose Press, 2018) by Paul Powell is not a repertoire bo...

Writing and Publishing Update

My First Kindle Book Yesterday, I published Essential Tactics: Building a Foundation for Chess Skill (2018) as a Kindle book. If it does ...

The Polgar Brick: eBook Edition Update

A Review Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games by L�szl� Polg�r contains 306 checkmate in one, 3412 checkmate in two, 744 checkma...

Seeing Patterns Update

Tal's Winning Chess Combinations (1979) has influenced my perception. Last week, I read the first chapter of this book by Mikhail Tal a...

Attitude Update

I will not worry about winning or losing rating points. I will only concern myself with learning from each game that I play. Paul Powell, ...