Review: Play 1.b3!

It doesn’t happen often that a chess author makes me laugh, but Ilya Odessky is one of them. But that’s not all. Many reviews of his new book Play 1.b3!, published by New in Chess, are also extremely funny. The point is, most reviewers assume Odessky wrote an opening book, which only reveals they haven’t even read the book. This book is not about a chess opening at all. If I had to classify it, I’d say it was perhaps a postmodern novel. Read more

[lang_nl]Matten met Bobby Fischer[/lang_nl][lang_en]Two attacking manuals[/lang_en]

[lang_nl]Na een aankondiging, een recensie en een nummer dat we oversloegen keren we weer terug naar de ‘Hard Gras over schaken’: het Nederlandstalige periodiek Matten. Recentelijk kwam het vierde deel uit.[/lang_nl][lang_en]This month, two new attacking manuals were published by Gambit: The Art of Attacking in Chess by Zenon Franco and How to Crush Your Chess Opponents by Simon Williams. Let’s have a look.[/lang_en] Read more