After a tough fight, Boris Avrukh’s Grandmaster Repertoire 2 won the public vote for the ChessPublishing Book of the Year prize. Congratulations to Boris and thanks to all those who voted. Last year the first volume of Mihail Marin’s 1.c4 GM Repertoire won this prize, so ChessPublishing regulars clearly have excellent taste. Next year […]
Avrukh wins ChessPublishing Book of the Year prize Read Post »
I am at times asked how reliable our books are, and at what level they can be used. I have to bite my tongue, because what I really wanted to say in such a situation is that player X, rated 2700+ has just bought the books on our website – and most likely not to
Use Marin to beat the World No. 1 Read Post »
Dear Quality Chess Reader, Andrew Greet and I have just returned from the Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia. Andrew was non-playing captain of the English Women’s team, who performed above expectations. I was Board 3 for the Scottish team in the Open section; we finished slightly below our seeding, despite beating all the teams we were
Quality Chess Newsletter – Marin, Bauer and lots of chess Read Post »
Because GM5 is “only” 280 pages, I have decided to cut the price down to 24.99 for the softcover and 32.99 for hardback edition. Those that have pre-paid will receive a refund of the 3 euro difference somewhere in the next few weeks. The reason this does not happen immediately, is because I have to
Slight price change to GM5 Read Post »
An author can save the reader all sorts of suffering with a well constructed opening repertoire. I believe one of the strengths of Lars Schandorff’s GM Repertoire 7 – The Caro-Kann is the way he carefully selects his recommended move order to avoid lines where White has easy attacking play. The following game was played
Play the Caro-Kann like Schandorff – or else Read Post »
Ponomariov – Wang Yue Kings Tournament, 21.06.2010 One of Boris Avrukh’s novelties was in play in the Kings Tournament in Romania a few days ago. The opening was a big success, and only at move 37 did White let the win slip. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.Be2 0–0 7.0–0
Avrukh Super novelty finally in play Read Post »
A helpful reader from the USA told us a fine story. While searching the web for one of our books an advert appeared on the edge of his screen offering Volume 2 of Marin’s 1.c4 series for an absurdly low price plus free shipping and all sorts of other too good to be true freebies.
Scammers love Marin Read Post »
When we reprinted GM1 earlier this year, we changed one line, as we did not want to have a bad line in the book. Obviously many more changes could be made, but this is the one we thought was necessary. The update is on page 335-336, and will be on the same pages in the
Minor update to GM1 Read Post »