Updated Publishing Schedule
Today we are sending QUALITY CHESS PUZZLE BOOK to the printer. It will be 352 pages and we are very happy with it. We are also essentially done with BOOST YOUR CHESS 2 and we are also getting there with GM6 – THE SICILIAN DEFENCE (which will be a big book). Not long after comes PLAY THE SCANDINAVIAN and Marin’s final two books on the English.
| Lubomir Ftacnik | Grandmaster Repertoire 6 – The Sicilian Defence | JULY |
| John Shaw | Quality Chess Puzzle Book | JULY |
| Christian Bauer | Play the Scandinavian | AUGUST |
| Artur Yusupov | Boost your Chess 2 | AUGUST |
| Mihail Marin | Grandmaster Repertoire 4 – The English Opening vol. 2 | August/september |
| Mihail Marin | Grandmaster Repertoire 5 – The English Opening vol. 3 | August/september |
| Tibor Karolyi | Karpov’s Strategic Wins: Volume 1 – 1961-1985 | September |
| Tibor Karolyi | Karpov’s Strategic Wins: Volume 2 – 1986 – 2009 | September |
| John Shaw | The King’s Gambit | september/october |
| Boris Avrukh | GM Repertoire 8 – The Grunfeld Defence | LATER |
| Milos Pavlovic | The Cutting Edge 2 – The Najdorf Sicilian without 6.Bg5 | LATER |
| Tiger Hillarp Persson | Middlegame book – TITLE NOT CONFIRMED | LATER |
| Mihail Marin | Common Grandmaster Mistakes – and how to avoid them | LATER |
| Artur Yusupov | Boost your Chess 3 | LATER |
| Vassilios Kotronias | Middlegame book – TITLE NOT CONFIRMED | LATER |
| Milos Pavlovic | The Cutting Edge 3 – The Najdorf Sicilian with 6.Bg5 | LATER |
| Jacob Aagaard | Grandmaster Repertoire x1 – 1.e4 – Ruy Lopez | NEXT YEAR |
| Jacob Aagaard | Grandmaster Repertoire x2 – 1.e4 – Sicilian | NEXT YEAR |
| Jacob Aagaard | Grandmaster Repertoire x3 – 1.e4 – French/Caro-Kann | NEXT YEAR |
| Jacob Aagaard | Grandmaster Repertoire x4 – 1.e4 other e5s | NEXT YEAR |
| Jacob Aagaard | Thinking Inside the Box | NEXT YEAR |
| Jacob Aagaard | Train your Chess Intuition | NEXT YEAR |
Categories: Publishing Schedule
When will the books GM rep 6 and Gm rep 7 be available on amazon ??
Hi there I was just wondering when GM 6 will be available from Chess Direct because I can’t buy from your site as I have forgot my password, and have not had an e-mail regarding retreving it. Also I have never recieved a newsletter even though I opted to when buying GM 2.
Keep up the good work
don’t know why you did not get the newsletter – we will put it online monday. I don’t know why you should have to remember a password, I will ask our webmaster. Anyway, Andrew will have the books Wednesday, I figure.
When you get a chance could you take a picture of GM6 for us, just to see how it looks?
I´m very interested in the Scandinavian book. When will we have a PDF extract? Thank you very much.
It will take a few weeks. I had hoped the book would go to the printer this week, but we had a file corruption and might have to redo a few things.
This is somewhat off-topic with regard to the Publishing Schedule, but I had a thought today when reviewing Dembo’s Grunfeld book for Everyman (which I think is quite good):
What do you guys think of the prospect of Boris covering some Grunfeld-like solutions to 1. Nf3 and 1. c4? Yes, it’s a bit off-topic, but no one has done this, and it’s always been one of my concerns with taking up the Grunfeld. It’d certainly add one notch on to the books belt right off the bat.
newest PDF excerpts:
Yusupov’s Boost your chess 2
Quality Chess Puzzle Book by John Shaw
I noticed that websales have been posted, but my Quality Chess account says “Not shipped” for my GM6 order and there was no automated shipping notice–is everything okay with the order or is it just not updated?
I hope my order was not forgotten to be posted like my previous order for GM2
Dragadorf, I’m looking forward to that book also. I’ve played almost every opening known to man-kind, and it’s clear that I get my best results (like this weekend where I went 5 and 0 with 3 Englishes as White, 2 Scandinavians as Black) with more solid, predominantly “light-square complex” defenses. I used to play the French, but got fed up with all the stupid draws in the Advance and Exchange. The $500 I won this past weekend will help cover my $50 expense for that book once it comes out in hardcover!
TonyRo, I can see where you are coming from. Last book that I’ve seen cover the “Anti-Grunfeld” was a book on the English written back in the 90′s. I don’t recall the author, but Cadogan had a 2-book series, English Opening: Symmetrical and English opening: Classical and Indian (“Classical” then meant 1…e5). I’m assuming you are referring to the line 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 Nxd5 and White doesn’t play d4 (the “Anti-Grunfeld”). My problem, however, has been making sense of the Grunfeld itself every time I’ve tried to play it. Every time I try to play agressive defenses, like the King’s Indian, Grunfeld, Benoni, Sicilian, Alekhine, Benko, etc., my King get’s it butt chewed off.
Of course, if you look at what books are out by Quality Chess for Black against 1.d4, I’ve had to look elsewhere myself, though Jacob has told me that there is something more positional (i.e. QGD, Slav [Proper, Not Semi-], or Nimzo-/Queen’s-Indian) will be in the works for Black against 1.d4 (I’m guessing probably mid to late 2011 sometime), but that it would be announced in some fashion other than email. But, till then, it’s off to Everyman to take care of my issues with the Nimzo-/Queen’s Indian Defenses, and Gambit for info on the QGD Orthodox.
Actually, nevermind. I just received my copy of GM6. Excellent! I like the 6. Bg5 lines too, especially 6…Nbd7. Well done QC!
I would like to know what you and others think of the physical quality of the book. The paper we wanted to use for Quality Chess Puzzle Book was no longer available, so we went for a new and similar paper for that one. We wanted GM6 to be printed as the other GM Rep books, but the printed screwed up and printed the book with the wrong paper! So, it will not look as the rest of the series, which is a shame, but we still use this paper – but as it is a first, I would like feedback
The paper is smooth and more glossy like the QC middlegame books, which is not a bad thing. It feels less dry than the other Grandmaster Repertoire books if you move your fingers across the pages. This new paper works well anyway, so nothing has really been lost.
Thank you!
I wonder where is the Alterman Gambit guide for Black in the publishing schedule ? unless I blundered. Thanks
It is being written. It will come; don’t worry. It would essentially be under LATER.