More candidates. Imagination is necessary to enjoy Christmas, after we did the hard work on the endings. White to play and make Black’s life entirely miserable.
Behind this door we find a very promising position. But pay attention!
Sometimes it is Christmas in January and sometimes not. I feel for Adam Hunt who failed to crown a decent chess career with a victory against a World Champion…
With one student rated about 2600 I recently had a session where he had failed to solve a lot of his homework. When I asked him the three questions, he would then almost instantly solve half of the positions he had previously failed to solve . Obviously he had the advantage of having spent time working on them already, but it still shows that when you are stuck, making a simple analysis about what is important in the position, just to aim your mind in the right direction, can be extremely useful.
A quick updated publishing schedule for Winter/Spring 2014. There are a lot of projects down the road that have not been forgotten. Kotronias has worked a lot on the KID and we hope a Mar Del Plata book will be ready late spring, but who knows. It is a big project. Also, GM6A and GM6B will happen. We have dates and material ready for working on it. We have long term plans for books on the Nimzo and QID, but again, long term has not been a stable experience for us.As always, this is the intentions; reality might be very different. Who knows :-).
| Boris Avrukh | GM Repertoire 17 – Classical Slav | January/February |
| Danny Gormally | Mating the Castled King | February/March |
| Jacob Aagaard | Grandmaster Preparation – Endgame Play | February/March |
| Tibor Karolyi | Mikhail Tal’s best games 1 – The Magic of Youth | February/March |
| Tiger Hillarp-Persson | The Modern Tiger | February/March |
| Emanuel Berg | Grandmaster Repertoire 16 – The French Defence Vol 3 | Winter |
| John Shaw | Playing 1.e4 – A Grandmaster Guide – Caro-Kann, 1…e5 & Minor Lines | Winter |
| John Shaw | Playing 1.e4 – A Grandmaster Guide – Sicilian & French | Spring |
| Jacob Aagaard | Grandmaster Preparation – Thinking Inside the Box | Spring/Summer |
| Tibor Karolyi | Mikhail Tal’s best games 2 – World Champion | Spring |
| Vassilios Kotronias | GM Repertoire 18 – Sveshnikov | Spring |
| xxx | Grandmaster Repertoire 21 – 1.e4 French, Caro-Kann & Philidor | Spring |
With so little time remaining until the holidays (and all those big events coming up), it is time to take the training seriously. From here on, it will only get harder.
An easier one today. After all, today we are publishing Carlsen’s Assault on the Throne, From GM to Top Ten and Grandmaster Repertoire 15 – The French Defence 2
I do not want to give anything away too soon; but the theme is the same all the way to Christmas Day!
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