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Sharpen your attacking skills, improve your calculation, and deepen your positional understanding with our latest sale. Learn when to give up material, and when not to!
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☕️ Build an ambitious repertoire for White with Coffeehouse Repertoire 1.e4 by GM Gawain Jones.
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A 180-year chess publishing tradition, now available for English readers!
The German chess magazine Schach launches Chess Insight, its first English-language edition, with annotated games, tournament reports, and featuring Peter Leko, Karsten Müller, Elisabeth Pähtz, and other experts.
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How well do you know Bobby Fischer?
Explore his life through 99 annotated games, letters, and firsthand accounts in Bobby Fischer and His World by IM John Donaldson.
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eBook of the Week: Coffeehouse Repertoire 1.e4: Volume 1
Coffeehouse Repertoire is a 1.e4 player’s dream: an arsenal of ideas from a world-class grandmaster to surprise and confound your opponents, combining coffeehouse trickery with complete theoretical soundness.
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Build your 1.e4 repertoire with GM Gawain Jones’s Coffeehouse Repertoire series, combining unexpected ideas with sound theoretical foundations.
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eBook of the Week: Excelling at Technical Chess
"And the rest is a matter of technique" is an annoyingly common phrase used in chess literature. In this valuable book GM Jacob Aagaard aims to solve this perennial problem. He arms the reader with several endgame weapons. These include important skills such as schematic thinking, domination, preventing counterplay, building fortresses and utilizing zugzwang.
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For 180 years, the German chess magazine SCHACH has been an integral part of the chess world. Today, SCHACH opens a new chapter in its long history: for the first time, the magazine is available in English under the new name CHESS INSIGHT.
The magazine is available exclusively in digital format.
This is much more than a translation. It is an invitation. Chess has always crossed borders. Players from different countries, cultures, and generations meet over the same 64 squares and share a universal language that needs no translation.
With this English edition, CHESS INSIGHT crosses another border, making the journalism, analysis, and stories that have made the magazine unique accessible to chess enthusiasts around the world.
Discover the first issue of CHESS INSIGHT:
CHESS INSIGHT — Issue 01/2026
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eBook of the Week: Lessons With A Grandmaster 3
This is the third book in the highly acclaimed Lessons with a Grandmaster series, Gulko and Sneed focus on both strategic and tactical ideas, and how to successfully combine the two parts over the board. Among the many subjects examined are attack and defence, exploiting weak squares, fighting for the initiative, Sicilian strategy and the bishop pair.
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Love the fianchetto? ♟️
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What goes through a grandmaster’s mind? 🧠
Book of the Week: In Lessons With a Grandmaster 3, GM Boris Gulko walks through his games with Dr. Joel R. Sneed, explaining the thought process behind his moves.
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How can you keep improving at chess as you get older?
In Fighting Father Time, GM Alex Fishbein shares practical training methods and examines how Korchnoi, Smyslov, and others adapted with age.
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From childhood in besieged Leningrad to his rise in Soviet chess and defection to the West, Victor Korchnoi tells his story.
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David Bronstein’s memories and games – from Zurich 1953 to his secret preparation with Korchnoi for the 1974 match against Karpov.
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New on Forward Chess!
Inside the Mind of Bobby Fischer by John Donaldson collects Fischer’s hard-to-find writings, with 116 annotated games, fresh commentary, and historical notes.
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Good news! Our German translation of Capablanca’s Chess Fundamentals is now ready for beta readers.
We’re looking for readers who are proficient in both German and English to review the translation and share their feedback.
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Take a walk through chess history!
Our Olympiad 2026 Sale is ON – ending soon.
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Round 3 - Heartbreaks #ChessOlympiad
The lone win for Kyrgyzstan (over Brazil) on the fourth board was a 408 rating point upset that helped the team win!
White to play & draw.
Black to play and win! #ChessOlympiad
Such a picture-perfect finish from Sindarov.
