The Chess Mind

We recently had a prolonged discussion on the site of the Philidor Counter-Gambit (start here and work your way backward), but that's just a (disreputable?) sideline in an opening that can count stars like Azmaiparashvili, Bacrot and Nisipeanu among its adherents. A new, excellent book on the great Frenchman's contribution is GM Christian Bauer's The Philidor Files, and you can read my review here. (Originally published in Chess Today.)

Here, with slight modifications, is a recent review I did for Chess Today of The Sharpest Sicilian, co-authored by Kiril Georgiev and Atanas Kolev.

I've written a number of book reviews for Chess Today the past couple of years (and am continuing to do so), and with their permission, I'll now start publishing them on my website. Here's an early one, covering Khalifman's anti-Pirc and Modern volume. (Originally published in CT-1818.)