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Welcome to my Chess Reviews page. Here I review chess books, DVDs, etc. If you ever need to find anything use CTRL+F and then type in your search term.

I would like to apologise in advance for the preponderance of good reviews - I am a lenient reviewer.

Chess DVDs

ROMAN'S LAB NEW
PRO CHESS: THE VIDEO CHESS MENTOR NEW
CHESSBASE FRITZTRAINER
FOXY OPENINGS

Chess Programs

CHESS TITANS
CHESSGENIUS CLASSIC
ICC BLITZIN 2.7
KASPAROV CHESSMATE
DASHER 1.30 NEW

Chess Books

THE SURVIVAL GUIDE TO COMPETITIVE CHESS
BEAT THE GRANDMASTERS
NUNN’S CHESS OPENINGS
COMPLETE BOOK OF CHESS STRATEGY: GRANDMASTER TECHNIQUES FROM A TO Z
101 TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR CHESS
SECRETS OF PRACTICAL CHESS (NEW ENLARGED EDITION)

Books on the shortlist of being reviewed:

TEST YOUR CHESS IQ: MASTER CHALLENGE
JOHN NUNN’S CHESS PUZZLE BOOK
PLAY LIKE A GRANDMASTER
THE ROAD TO CHESS IMPROVEMENT
BIG BOOK OF BUSTS
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CHESS GAMES
MY SYSTEM
UNDERSTANDING CHESS MOVE BY MOVE
10 MOST COMMON CHESS MISTAKES

Chess Websites

CHESSPUBLISHING.COM

Notes:

To purchase products, I recommend Wholesale Chess. They provide the highest quality chess products at the lowest prices (especially for US and Canadian players). They even offer to match prices with other chess websites! Even though I live overseas, this is where I choose to purchase chess goods.

For chess opening training and repertoire maintenance, I highly recommend the software I use, Chess Openings Wizard. This software was approved by Grandmaster Peter Svidler (FIDE rating 2744 as of January 2010) many years ago.

For reviews of a range of freeware chess programs, including Fritz 5.32, Arena, Rybka 2.2n2, Scid and ChessBase Light 2009, take a look at my "free chess programs" article.

For reviews of the strongest chess engines, click here to see the "best chess program" article.

For reviews of different chess servers, see the "playing online chess" article.

For more chess reviews, you can check out Chessville, Jeremy Silman's website, John Elburg's website, Carsten Hansen's Checkpoint and BCM Reviews.

Posted by Webmaster on Sunday, February 28, 2010.