Author name: John Shaw

Playing the English has received great reviews, but readers also pointed out some lines that should have been included in the book. So we asked author Nikos Ntirlis to produce an update and he delivered more excellent material. You can read the APPENDIX PDF at that link. The same material is also linked at the […]

We are having a new Quality Chess website built. In fact, we have been for a long while. But maybe in the next month or so it will come alive. Our old existing website is misbehaving in one annoying way – when a customer asks for a password to be re-set (let’s say the customer

On October 18th we will publish two superb new books: Theoretical Rook Endgames by GM Sam Shankland, and Conceptual Rook Endgames by GM Jacob Aagaard. The excerpt of Theoretical Rook Endgames is here. And the excerpt of Conceptual Rook Endgames is here. As ever, I am biased, but these books are brilliant. They are sister

Endgame Labyrinths by Steffen Nielsen & Jacob Aagaard will be published on September 27th. You can now read an excerpt. To paraphrase the cover text, this book contains 1002 challenging studies that were selected and truncated to be as useful as possible for the practical player. The excerpt gives even more of a flavour of

We are continuing our free-fourth-book offer – if you buy three books or more and live in the normal European Union zone (as defined by UPS – for example, they exclude some islands and remote areas) we will send you an extra book free. Please note that if you buy a Special Offer and are

There is now an excerpt of Nikos’s excellent Playing the English repertoire. The book is a solid 440 pages, so we made it a generous 20-page excerpt. We don’t have a set-in-stone publication date yet, but either end of August or start of September will be right. And at the same time will be Endgame