I am pleased to report that Practical Chess Beauty by Yochanan Afek is at the printers. We will announce a publication date soon. And on the topic of announcements, I will have news about two other books early next week.
But to return to Afek, we have created an excerpt. It was a difficult decision what to include in the excerpt, as there is spectacular chess on every page of the book. But I did manage to include the solution to the position I shared in an earlier blog post.
«And on the topic of announcements, I will have news about two other books early next week.»
Hopefully QID 😀
Wait minute..I check the QC store everyday, and I noticed in the QID book details it says now:
«424 pages – Expected Release Autumn 2018»
Looks like there is page count now 😀
What is the practical value of Afek’s book?
How many exercise are included and what can expect an average player in range from 1800-2200 Elo?
@Le Bruit Qui Court
I would have been sceptical in advance myself, but I actually think it is a very approachable book. It is my favourite book we have done in 2018…
@Leon Trotsky
Should be a publication date and an excerpt soon too. It is at the printer.
“And on the topic of announcements, I will have news about two other books early next week.”
My personal fanasy remains a Leningrad Dutch by Marin to go with his Pirc and Avrukh’s d4. Then my entire opening repertoire would be Quality Chess…
@Le Bruit Qui Court
who cares about pracical value?
at first, a chess book is a …book. that means you should read it with pleasure
To me this is the highlight of our year. I love this book. Totally. For this reason I already know that it will not be a big commercial success 🙂
Quick question. Is there any overlap between Invisible Chess Moves, Extreme Chess Tactics, or his columns eg in Informant and the new book? If he’s discussing the same studies once again we need to know. Thanks
I agree with Moiseevich, please let Marin write a Leningrad book!!
Almost no overlap. In this new book there are hundreds of Afek studies. I believe in ‘Extreme Chess Tactics’ there were 5 Afek studies. And in the Informant column over many years there were maybe 10 Afek studies.
So 99% of ‘Practical Chess Beauty’ will not be found in any previous Afek book is my estimate.
@John Shaw
Thanks John
Put my mind at rest. As usual they will be too difficult to solve from the starting position but I still appreciate the flow and beauty
@Jacob Aagaard
Thank you.
You mean QID is at printer at same time as Practical Chess Beauty for dual release ¿
@John Shaw
This is available as hardback? Could not see this on the listing in the coming soon section.
invisible chess moves ( Afek & Neiman) is one of my favorites chess books so i am really waiting for this 99%new work from Afek