We are coming close to finishing a lot of books at the same time currently, leading to a more optimistic and more precise than usual publishing schedule.
Obviously, with January publications, the general problem is that the printer is busy most of December with Christmas catalogues and other seasonal items that really cannot wait as much as a chess book can.
The Soviet Chess Primer and The Modern Tiger are both with the printers. Excerpts are available here: SCP and MT.
Chess Structures – A Grandmaster Guide will be typeset next week. When the printer will be able to print it, we will see. But hopefully before the New Year or at least as the first thing back from the Christmas Holidays.
We are far with the editing of the second volume of Negi’s series, which will be about 400 pages, I think and 1.e4 vs. The Sicilian Volume 1 will be by far the most complex book in the series. We are also more than half way in the editing of the two volumes from Vassilios Kotronias on the Mar del Plata variation of the King’s Indian. These three books will be ready at the end of January or the start of February. It will be close.
The Hardback edition of Learn from the Legends will be done when someone needs a break or has finished something. It is a priority, but we gave up on the 10 years to the date idea some time ago. It just felt less important than bringing new books out. Some will disagree, others will be happy. But at least it is coming out and with a new chapter on Carlsen as well as some minor corrections all over the place.
The only thing that really has moved (as far as we are concerned) is the Gelfand book. Boris is playing the Mind Games event in China and it is just too tight with 2-3 days to get it done before then. Most of the book is written and edited and I am happy with the result. It has been very challenging to write this book (separate considerations revealed in a separate blog post in a few days’ time), but I am happy with how it is turning out.
The Semi-Slav is far advanced. A few things still need to be analysed deeply and finished. More on that in that piece as well.
All in all, we are working very hard, but the books coming out are better than we usually are able to make them. I am very happy with this list of coming books.
Ilya Maizelis |
The Soviet Chess Primer |
10 Dec |
Tiger Hillarp Persson |
The Modern Tiger |
10 Dec |
Mauricio Flores Rios |
Chess Structures – A Grandmaster Guide |
January |
Parimarjan Negi |
Grandmaster Repertoire – 1.e4 vs The Sicilian I |
Jan/Feb |
Vassilios Kotronias |
Kotronias on the King’s Indian – Vol 2 – Mar del Plata I |
Jan/Feb |
Vassilios Kotronias |
Kotronias on the King’s Indian – Vol 3 – Mar del Plata II |
Jan/Feb |
Mihail Marin |
Learn from the Legends – Hardback Edition |
Jan/Feb |
Tigran Petrosian |
Python Strategy |
February |
Boris Gelfand |
Positional Decision Making in Chess |
February |
John Shaw |
Playing 1.e4 – A GM Guide – Caro-Kann, 1…e5 & Minor Lines |
Winter |
Emanuel Berg |
Grandmaster Repertoire 16 – The French Defence Vol 3 |
Winter |
Boris Avrukh |
GM Repertoire – 1.d4 The Catalan |
Spring |
Lars Schandorff |
Grandmaster Repertoire 20 – Semi-Slav |
Spring |
Tibor Karolyi |
Mikhail Tal’s best games 2 – World Champion |
Spring |
If there is a book you expected to see on this list that is not on it, it just means that it is outside the horizon. Writers unfortunately do not coordinate well and they have a tendency to finish the books at the same time at least as much as with a nice well-spaced interval between them. So, sometimes we have to run faster. This is one of those times.
The books exist. They will come. Don’t despair. We are doing all we can.
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