Chess Book Collectors Book of the Year 2017
The Pulitzer Prize of chess is probably the English Chess Federations Chess Book of the Year award. It deserves this comparison because the committee have repeatedly chosen very good books as winners. They have also had an attitude of spreading the award a bit; their main objective is to promote chess literature. This year the judges unanimously agreed to give the award to Jan Timman for his book Timman’s Titans, which is absolutely deserved. Timman is a major chess writer and this is perhaps his most important book.
At Quality Chess we were ecstatic to be nominated for both our entries (each publisher can send only two books for consideration), which is great in a year where we published few books. Especially as one of them were an opening book. I think Thinking Inside the Box is my best book, but did not believe that such a technical book would win. It rarely does. For example, we could not even get the Yusupov series nominated! The last time a truly technical book won was when Nunn’s Chess Endings won in 2011.
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