Hi guys! Back from holiday and ready to look at when the books will be ready. As you will no doubt understand, we have a lot of responsibilities, so sadly not everything has worked out exactly as I have wanted it. The good news is that Michael Roiz has finished his draft of Grandmaster Repertoire – The Nimzo-Indian. The sad news is that we cannot finish editing it before the Olympiad, so it will have to wait till after Baku. This delays it with a few weeks. It will be out in October only. Sorry.
This is the current list of what is coming… It is VERY UNOFFICIAL with the exception of the accurate dates.
| Parimarjan Negi |
GM Rep – 1.e4 vs The Sicilian III |
31 August 2016 |
| Boris Avrukh |
GM Repertoire 1B – 1.d4 The Queen’s Gambit |
31 August 2016 |
| Boris Gelfand |
Dynamic Decision Making in Chess |
31 August 2016 |
| Victor Mikhalevski |
GM Rep 19 – Beating Minor Openings |
September |
| Ilya Smirin |
King’s Indian Warfare |
September |
| Yuri Razuvaev |
Key Concepts of Gambit Play |
October I hope |
| Michael Roiz |
The Nimzo-Indian |
October I hope |
| John Shaw |
Playing 1.e4 – Sicilian & French |
Autumn |
| Carl Portman |
Chess Behind Bars |
Autumn |
| Richard Pert |
Playing the Ragozin |
Autumn |
| Tibor Karolyi |
Mikhail Tal’s best games 3 – The Invincible |
Autumn |
| Thomas Luther |
Luther’s Chess Reformation |
Autumn |
| Vassilios Kotronias |
King’s Indian – Volume 5 |
Hopefully Autumn |
We are continuing our special 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. For June and July, the default option on the free book has been the Attacking Manual 1 and 2, respectively. But we will change that now to the QUALITY CHESS PUZZLE BOOK by John Shaw.
But if you already have the Quality Chess Puzzle Book, or would prefer a different free book, then send us an email with your order, asking to have it replaced with one of the following titles:
CHESS LESSONS
CARLSEN’S ASSAULT ON THE THRONE
POSITIONAL CHESS SACRIFICES
GRANDMASTER VERSUS AMATEUR
GRANDMASTER BATTLE MANUAL
REGGIO EMILIA 2007/2008
TACTIMANIA
SAN LUIS 2005
ATTACKING THE SPANISH
CUTTING EDGE 1: THE OPEN SICILIAN
CUTTING EDGE 2: SICILIAN NAJDORF 6.Be3
Just a quick announcement that an excerpt of Playing 1.e4 – Caro-Kann, 1…e5 & Minor Lines is now available.
So what’s the book like? It’s big – 632 pages. I also hope it’s good, as several people put a lot of effort into it. If printing goes to schedule, it should be published on June 29. And that would mean it would be available on Forward Chess on June 22.
‘Published on June 29’ means that is the first day it will be in chess shops. We generally send out books bought from our website as soon as possible, so if you happen to live somewhere with a quick postal service, you might get lucky and receive the book just before the publication date. The paperbacks have ‘thread-sewn binding’ which is the same binding as our hardcovers, so they should be sturdy.
We are continuing our special 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. Recently the default option on the free book has been Chess Lessons, but we will change that now to the award-winning ATTACKING MANUAL 1 by Jacob Aagaard.
The plan is to have Attacking Manual 1 as the Free Book of the Month for June, and then in July the default option will switch to Attacking Manual 2. So if for reason you do not have the Attacking Manuals, then the next couple of months are the ideal time to put that right.
Or if you already have Attacking Manual 1, or would prefer a different free book, then send us an email with your order, asking to have it replaced with one of the following titles:
CHESS LESSONS
CARLSEN’S ASSAULT ON THE THRONE
POSITIONAL CHESS SACRIFICES
GRANDMASTER VERSUS AMATEUR
GRANDMASTER BATTLE MANUAL
REGGIO EMILIA 2007/2008
TACTIMANIA
SAN LUIS 2005
ATTACKING THE SPANISH
CUTTING EDGE 1: THE OPEN SICILIAN
CUTTING EDGE 2: SICILIAN NAJDORF 6.Be3
Colin is off today, but sometime over the next few days we will put a few more books in the Coming Soon section. These are the books that are “all under control” (if ever that was true…) and where we know more or less when they will come out.
Many books are close to completion, but we do not know if printing will take three or five weeks, so there is a bit of uncertainty.
There is a special point about Dynamic Decision Making in Chess. Boris will be giving a 90 minute lecture at X-Tra Con Open (formerly Politiken Cup) in Helsingor on the 28th of July, assisted by yours truly. The entry fee is essentially to buy the new book in hardback. This is one month ahead of general publication.
1. e4 vs the Sicilian III is waiting for a few updates from Negi and a proofread. Playing 1.e4 – Caro-Kann, 1…e5 & Minor Lines is 90% proofread and will go to the printer this week. GM Repertoire 1B, 1.d4 – The Queen’s Gambit is halfway through editing and will be done within a few weeks. Key Concepts of Gambit Play is lacking a quick edit. Mikhail Tal 3 – The Invincible is lacking a long and thorough edit! The same with King’s Indian Warfare. The authors of Grandmaster Repertoire – The Nimzo-Indian and Kotronias on the King’s Indian 5 have sent many files already. Hopefully they are not far off. Thinking Inside the Box has yet to be fully written.
I have been busy with the Gelfand book and also wanted to spend a bit of time writing a beginner’s book, which is Chess from Scratch. I teach at Fettes College in Edinburgh and wanted to put my experiences of working with beginners on paper. As I am not going to the Olympiad this year, Read more…
We have long been pushing our hardback editions as much as we can without seeming, well, pushy. This has been for one reason mainly; we believe in the product immensely and the feedback we are getting is that people are very pleased with it. They lie open flat, for example, which is an important issue when you are working with books such as the Yusupov series or my own Grandmaster Preparation books.
We have always been happy with the quality of the paperback books and over the years we have received very few complaints about pages falling out of the books. This is if we exclude the first edition of Experts vs. the Sicilian and a reprint of Grandmaster Repertoire 3, where some copies were bound poorly. We took steps to deal with it at the time. Read more…
I am feeling a bit guilty that I have been poor at updating the publishing schedule – and that the last one did not have any dates on it. At this point it looks like Kotronias on the King’s Indian 4 – Classical Systems will be out on the 13th of April. Things can always go wrong with the printing process of course, but let’s presume they don’t. So less than a month away. An excerpt is now available.
But what I really wanted to talk about is this beauty:
Read more…
We are continuing our special 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. Recently the default option on the free book has been Carlsen’s Assault on the Throne but we will change that now to CHESS LESSONS by Vladimir Popov.
But if you already have Chess Lessons, or would prefer a different free book, then send us an email with your order, asking to have it replaced with one of the following titles:
CARLSEN’S ASSAULT ON THE THRONE
POSITIONAL CHESS SACRIFICES
GRANDMASTER VERSUS AMATEUR
GRANDMASTER BATTLE MANUAL
REGGIO EMILIA 2007/2008
TACTIMANIA
SAN LUIS 2005
ATTACKING THE SPANISH
CUTTING EDGE 1: THE OPEN SICILIAN
CUTTING EDGE 2: SICILIAN NAJDORF 6.Be3
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