Tuesday we finally changed website provider, giving us a chance to change some information on the site that had grown old – as for example expected publishing dates.
This also brings about the chance for creating a newsletter again, something we have been missing for a while. We would use this to announce our new books a few weeks before publication mainly, so I have created this new category on the blog to keep the readers up to date with out progress.
At the moment we have fixed dates on Frage der Moderne Schachteori and Grossmeister Repertoire 1 – Band Eins, translations of the books published in English by Lipnitsky and Avrukh, now spelled Lipnitzky and Awruch. We will have the books in our warehouse on the 24th of June. There is a slight delay at the printer because of summer catalouges, so this is the fastest they could do.
However, they hope to be ready to print our soon forthcoming titles in English faster. We are talking about Build up Your Chess 3 by Artur Yusupov and Attacking the Spanish by Sabino Brunello first of all. I think these will be out 2 weeks later, meaning the 8th of July – but I want to stress that this is not final by any means.
Later in the summer we will finish the following books:
(I will be revising the dates as we go along. These are not promises in any way!)
Mihail Marin: GM Repertoire 3 – The English Opening vol. 1
This book is basically written. I have been going over the manuscript and Mihail wants to add some new games to the book that he played over the last few weeks. Marin’s English is becoming very fluent and the corrections needed by the editors will be minimal. I am hoping we can prepare this book for printing in 3 weeks time already!
The book looks absolutely fantastic. Those who thing Avrukh started the series on a high level will not be disappointed.
Estimated publication date 22nd July
Volume 2 will be out in September or October.
Ftacnik, Kopec and Browne: Champions of the New Millennium
We have put a lot of work into this book. It will be big. I have typeset 8 chapters of the 18. John has finished the final editing in a few hours. The book will be typeset next week somewhere, will then go to proofreading and the printer.
Estimated publication date 22nd July
Tibor Karolyi: Genius in the Background
This is a profoundly different book, very interesting to edit and read. I am not sure it will be the most commercial of our books, but we don’t choose our books based on expected profits, but on what we want to work with.
Estimated publication date 29th July – but this is probably too optimistic 🙁
Jacob Aagaard: Attacking Manual 2
I am about 250 pages into AM2 and it keeps growing. So far it is 250 pages.The final book will be 6 chapters and 50 exercises. AM1 will be re-typeset and re-issued, with 3 extra games. The first book was ugly, but the content is worth saving.
Estimated publication date for both – September 2009
Boris Avrukh: GM Repertoire 2 – 1.d4 volume 2
Boris is quite far in the work on this book. It is bad news for supporters of bad gambits and has the same number of new ideas as in the first edition.
Estimated publication date – September 2009
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