Top 10 Chess Players Who Play the Nimzo Indian Defense
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Top 10 Chess Players Who Play the Nimzo Indian Defense

The Nimzo Indian Defense is a chess opening played by Black. It’s considered a “hypermodern” defense involving a quick fianchetto of the black king’s-bishop, combined with d6. Black allows White to build a strong pawn center, only later hitting back with moves like e5 or c5. The Nimzo-Indian Defense was first played by Aron Nimzowitsch,…

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Book Review – Logical Decision Making
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Book Review – Logical Decision Making

Fundamental Chess: Logical Decision Making is one of those books which one can read at any point in life. The book is very instructive and explains the best possible way to practice fundamental chess.  It is such a book that can make an impact on the audience in an instant. The author GM Ramesh is…

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Book Review- My System by Aron Nimzowitsch
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Book Review- My System by Aron Nimzowitsch

My System written by Aron Nimzowitsch is one of the “must study” books in chess literature. This book is classified under the ‘Chess classics’ category by Quality Chess. The book should be studied in the earlier stages of learning chess. This book was first published in the German language in 1925. But there was no…

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Viktor Korchnoi the Great!!
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Viktor Korchnoi the Great!!

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains because you have suffered and worried over each mistake on the board. –Viktor Korchnoi How to spell “Political asylum”? Questioned Korchnoi to Antony Miles. Both the players were joint winners of the Amsterdam tournament, the first tournament of Viktor…

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Book Review – Practical Chess Defence
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Book Review – Practical Chess Defence

A game of chess goes on like one player makes mistake and the other tries to capitalize on it. Then comes themes like ideas, refutations, attack, defense, counterattack, and much more. When one player attacks it depends on the other player’s style to put up a defense or create a counter-attack. It is mostly recommended…

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