Quality Chess
Pump Up Your Rating (Quality Chess, 2013) won ChessCafe's Book of the Year Award. The first part covers thinking techniques in chess and the second how to become your own chess coach. Reviews at the (closed) Pump Up-blog.
e3 Poison - a 21t century opening repertoire (Quality Chess, 2017) is an opening repertoire for White with focus on understanding rather than concrete lines. Many strong players uses the innocent-looking move: Magnus Carlsen, Alexander Grischuk, Vladimir Kramnik.
The Woodpecker Method (Quality Chess, 2018) explains the technique that GM Hans Tikkanen invented to improve his tactical skill (+130 elo and 3 GM-norms in a few months). The method has since worked well for many others, however requires a lot of work.
Street Smart Chess (Quality Chess, 2021) is an expert guide to scoring more points at the chessboard. When does it pay off to play hard for a win? Or safe for a draw? And how do you adapt your playing style accordingly? The book answers these questions, and more, by using a world-class player as a model for each chapter. Learn how Magnus Carlsen grinds out wins from level positions; how David Navara beats lower-rated opponents, and how Baskaran Adhiban beats higher-rated ones!
Black & White Magic (Quality Chess, 2023) argues that understanding colour-complex strategies is one of the key differences between strong and weak players. Colour complexes are broken down into various sub-topics such as blockades, opposite-coloured bishops and exchange sacrifices, with carefully chosen exercises to test and reinforce the reader s newfound understanding.
Woodpecker II (Quality Chess, 2024) contains 1000 positional exercises and solutions, along with detailed guidance on how to gain maximal benefit from the training. All exercises have been checked and rechecked using the latest engines, as well as a panel of test solvers for valuable human feedback. Among the test solvers was GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who ascended to 4th in the world rankings after working through the exercises.
Left Hook will be published by Quality Chess in 2026, while another book is set for 2027.
Schackstudion
Under lånat tak (2021, in Swedish) is a story about the usual yet unusual life of Birgitta Svensson. It was printed in 70 copies for friends and family.
Hasselbacken Chess Open 2016 (Robert Sp ngberg, 2021, in Swedish) is a tournament book yielding the strongest field in an open in modern Swedish chess. It can be aquired by Stockholms SS.
Rolf Martens (2022, in Swedish) is the story of a Swedish chess legend who won the Swedish Championship in 1967. A few years later, he retired to devote himself to political activism on the far left. When his passion for chess returned, he founded the ultra-modern counterattack school and has given rise to more openings than perhaps any other player in history. It was translated to English by Thinker's Publishing.
Tusen och en schack (Jonny Hector, 2023, in Swedish) is a wonderful collection of anecdotes, game fragments and stories by the ever creative grandmaster Jonny Hector. It is sold by Schackbutiken.
Ett lyft för tågtrafiken (Resenärerna, 2025, in Swedish) is a collection of texts arguing for how politics could improve Swedish train.
Biologens pixilexikon (2024, in Swedish) is one of six pixi books for children.
Other publishers
På andra sidan väggen (Parus förlag, 2018, in Swedish) r en reportagebok om fantastiska idrottsprestationer, livet, hålsan, och vågen tillbaka efter ett utmattningssyndrom. I boken m ter du h jdhopparen Linus Thörnblad, triathleten Clas Björling, bandyspelaren Magnus Muhrén, kanotisten Tom Krantz, schackspelaren Ulf Andersson, l paren Johan Larsson och cyklisterna Christian Bertilsson och Marcus Streijffert.
Light & Dark Magic is one of four courses published by Chessable. The others are Pump Up Your Rating, The Woodpecker Method and Woodpecker II.
The Grandmaster (New in Chess, 2026) is a novel. Obsession can destroy you or define you. When Lukas leaves Sweden for an island off the coast of Saint Petersburg, he vows to sacrifice everything for one goal: the Grandmaster title. Friendships falter, love slips away, and his hunger for victory turns inward. Every move brings him closer to either triumph or collapse. The Grandmaster is a novel of ambition, obsession, and the fragile boundary between brilliance and self-destruction.
Spring för livet is a story about running in Kenya and Uganda, currently looking for a publisher along with another book that I doubt will see daylight until at least a decade.
During ten years, my main work was being editor for Tidskrift för Schack, with four issues per year. I have written short weekly columns (757 in total) for Göteborgposten and a few dozen other Swedish newspapers. Book chapters have been published in 64 (2017), Sveriges Schackförbund 100 år (2017), New in Chess Yearbook (2018) and the Chess Saga (2021).
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