Sorry guys, it has been really really hard for Boris and myself to get our calendars to work in tune. The time we have had has all gone towards finishing Dynamic Decision Making in Chess which will go to the printer tomorrow and be out on August 31. (The exception is that it will be on […]
Boris Gelfand Q & A – delay and time to ask more questions Read Post »
After pleading for a year (at least) on your behalf, I have talked Boris Gelfand into doing a Q&A with the readers of the Quality Chess blog. It will work like this: Put your questions in comments to this post by the end of Sunday 29th May. Boris and I will then agree on a
Q & A with Boris Gelfand Read Post »
Boris and I are getting close to finishing the second book. Maybe 4-5 games more. We have already done quite a bit of stuff for the third book as well. Maybe we will march on and finish it quickly!? Anyway, the second book will be out at the end of August. Boris is a very
Working with Boris Read Post »
ChessBase has posted the first half of an interview of Boris Gelfand by Sagar Shah. Many topics are covered, including the process of working on Positional Decision Making in Chess. I’ll post a link to the second half of the interview when it appears. Update: And the second half of the interview is now available.
Boris Gelfand Interview Read Post »
Congratulations to Axel Smith of Sweden on gaining the Grandmaster title. FIDE confirmed on Monday that the title would be awarded. Axel has been highly successful in helping other players to improve, and it’s good to see his methods also worked on himself. The Quality Chess connection to Axel is of course that he wrote
In case you did not see it. In a rook ending yesterday, Nakamura touched the king and seemed to act as if it was correcting the piece. In the video you can see the change of posture. I do not want to criticise him; it is hard to deal with your dream dying in a
Touch move at the Candidates Read Post »
GM Gawain Jones had a great result at the Tradewise Gibraltar Masters, which finished yesterday. Gawain scored 7.5/10, in a tie for 3rd, half a point behind Nakamura and Vachier-Lagrave. Gawain’s final-round game was with Black against Yu Yangyi, a 2747-rated 1.e4 player. Fortunately, Gawain has a Dragon repertoire he can trust. I will give
Gibraltar 2016 – Authors in Action Read Post »
Boris and I joked to each other about when people would pick up on the fact that we would write more than one book together, something that became very clear to me the moment he presented the material he wanted to go over in the first session we did together. It happened already on the
Working on the second Gelfand book Read Post »