Carsten Hansen
FIDE Master & FIDE Trainer
- FIDE Master
- FIDE Trainer
- Experienced Chess Coach
- Chess Blogger on www.social.chessclublive.com
- Book Review Columnist (ChessCafe.com 1999-2014 & American Chess Magazine (2016-)
- Author of twenty-seven books: The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon (with Peter Heine Nielsen, Batsford 1998), The Gambit Guide to the English Opening: 1…e5 (Gambit 1999), The Symmetrical English (Gambit 2001), The Nimzo-Indian: 4 e3 (Gambit 2002), The Cambridge Springs Variation (ChessCafe 2002), Improve Your Positional Chess (Gambit 2004), A Strategic Opening Repertoire (with John Donaldson, Russell Enterprises 2008), Back to Basics: Openings (Russell Enterprises 2009), Mejore su ajedrez posicional (Editorial La Casa Del Ajedrez 2008), The Sicilian Dragon – move by move (Everyman Chess 2016), Miniatures in the Sicilian Najdorf (e-book, Russell Enterprises 2016), Miniatures in the Queen’s Indian: 4 g3 (e-book, Russell Enterprises 2016), Miniatures in the Ruy Lopez: Main Lines (e-book, Russell Enterprises 2017), The Closed Sicilian – move by move (Everyman Chess 2017), the best-selling series Catastrophes & Tactics in the Chess Opening (volumes 1-10) (CarstenChess 2017-18), Specialized Chess Tactics: The Budapest & Fajarowicz Gambits (Carsten Chess 2017), The Chameleon Variation (Russell Enterprises 2017), The Full English Opening – Mastering the Fundamentals (New In Chess 2018), The Sicilian Accelerated Dragon – 20th Anniversary Edition (CarstenChess 2018)
- Several books scheduled to be published in 2019-2020, including The Modernized Accelerated Dragon (Thinkers Publishing 2019)