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Dear Quality Chess Reader, If you live near London you will soon have the chance to attend lectures by two of our authors. Grandmasters Jacob Aagaard and Boris Avrukh will be giving talks at the London Chess Classic. Jacob’s will be on December 14; Boris’s date has yet to be confirmed. On the same day […]
Quality Chess Newsletter – London Classic lectures, new books & original analysis Read Post »
Quality Chess has joined the arms race and purchased a super computer, kindly assembled by Phil Harris. Our new machine is running at many times the speed of our quad core standard machines and needs a water cooling system to not overheat. Hopefully this will increase the level of our analysis for the future. I
Super computer up and running 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 »
last night at the gym I caused a bit of a stir. I returned to my locker and found that once I unlocked it, there was nothing inside. I call the manager and he started checking all the locks to see if anyone by chance had the same code. 10 minutes later we were back
Are chess players intelligent? Read Post »
Dear Quality Chess Reader, We recently received encouragement from England: Champions of the New Millennium and Jacob’s Attacking Manual 1 and Attacking Manual 2 were placed on the shortlist for the ECF Book of the Year prize. These were the only books we put forward for the prize and the judges’ comments were flattering. Publication
Newsletter 7th Sept. 2010 – Bauer & ECF Book of the Year shortlist Read Post »
Dear Quality Chess Reader, We have now published two new books. GM Repertoire 6: The Sicilian Defence by GM Lubomir Ftacnik and The Quality Chess Puzzle Book by GM John Shaw. GM Repertoire 6: The Sicilian Defence provides a sharp, complete repertoire for Black after 1.e4 c5. The Quality Chess Puzzle Book offers 735 challenging
Newsletter 23rd July 2010 – Including 22 annotated games Read Post »
A few months ago a guy wrote to me asking if we were going to include 6.Bg5 Nbd7 7.f4 Qc7 8.Qf3 h6 9.Bh4 g5!? in GM6. We had no intention to do so, but a last moment change of hearts has meant that we do indeed include this topical line. Berg, Dominguez, Navara and Ivanchuk
Najdorf – 6.Bg5 Nbd7 7.f4 Qc7 8.Qf3 h6 9.Bh4 g5!? Read Post »
Dear Quality Chess Reader, Recently we have experimented by printing some of our books in hardback. It was a success both in the favourable feedback we received on our blog and in terms of the sales. In fact, the hardbacks disappeared so quickly that we at Quality Chess did not even get to keep a
Newsletter 9th June 2010 – Hardback reprints, Radio Alterman and Schedule Read Post »