The Bookworm Club

A club for chess students who are interesting in learning and sharing more about how to play good chess.

The private club forum includes hundreds of instructive master games, and this will eventually grow into thousands. The primary method for categorizing these games is by opening, but many games are also categorized by player.

We have separate threads of each of these openings:

• Alekhine's Defense
• Barry Attack
• Benoni Defense
• Bird's Opening
• Bishop's Opening
• Caro-Kann
• - Caro-Kann Two Knights Attack
• - Caro-Kann Exchange variation and Panov-Botvinnik Attack
• - Caro-Kann Fantasy variation
• - Caro-Kann Hillbilly Attack
• Catalan
• Dutch Defense
• Four Knights
• French
• Italian
• - Giuoco Piano
• - Two Knights Defense
• Grob Opening
• Grunfeld
• Hippopotamus Defense
• London System
• Modern Defense
• Nimzo-Indian Defense
• Nimzo-Larsen Attack
• Nimzowitsch Defense
• Old Benoni
• Owen's Defense
• Pirc Defense
• Ponziani
• Russian
• Spanish
• Spanish Berlin Defense
• Spanish Exchange variations
• Closed Spanish
• Scandinavian Defense
• Scotch
• Trompowsky
• Vienna
• Veresov Attack
• English
• Open Sicilian
• Sicilian Dragons
• Sicilian Najdorf
• Pelikan, Sveshnikov and Kalashnikov variations
• Closed Sicilian
• Anti-Sicilians
• King's Indian Defense
• King's Indian Attack
• Reti Opening
• Plus many Gambit openings

For example, there are threads for World Champions Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Anand and Magnus Carlsen.

We also cover games by Caruana, Korchnoi, Seirawan, Nakamura, Shirov, Nezhmetdinov and more.