Sagar Shah of ChessBase India interviewed Vinay about his new book. See the interview here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4IIiYe5Vb8
Do you want to work with a small team in an independent chess-specialist publishing house 2 minutes’ walk from Glasgow Central train station?
The job requires you to have strong numerical skills and for it to be easy for you to work with software such as Excel, Xero and other specialised software. It does NOT require in-depth knowledge of any of these software packages, only a natural comfort and adaptability for working with numbers-based software.
The job requires you to be organised, consistent and reliable. But mostly it requires you to be responsible. We are a small team and every person has their own area of responsibility. You cannot be waiting to be told to do things, but have to proactively (in conversation with your supervisor) ensure that your areas of responsibility are under control and up to date.
The job does not require any specialised chess knowledge, although it will be seen as a plus, as we are a chess company.
The job requires good written English, in order to communicate with customers and other people outside the company, but does not require you to be a native speaker.
The job could be a good fit for someone wanting to slow down, but who still wants to work for a number of years. But age, gender or nationality are not criteria for the job, which has been held by both men and women in the past, as well as Brits and foreign nationals.
The job is part-time and will be a minimum of three hours per day, maximum six hours, starting at 9.30 am. It will not always be possible to predict when the workload is higher, but 80+ percent of the time it will be possible to estimate which days will require longer hours.
Often aspects of the job can be done on the following day, as long as orders are processed – which is almost always possible. Thus, planning your own work-week will be a normal thing to do.
The job is 15-25 hours per week. With the usual holiday provisions and public holidays. Generally with great flexibility.
The pay is £15 per hour, meeting all the legal requirements.
Anyone interested, please contact John Shaw at john@qualitychess.co.uk or call 0141 204 2073
Often people ask what is happening with this or that book, so I just wanted to give a little update on what we are working on at the moment.
Black and White Magic by Axel Smith and How I Became a Chess Grandmaster by Vinay Bhat are at the printer and will come out on the 12th of April.
Key Elements of Chess Strategy and Key Elements of Chess Tactics – both by Georgy Lisitsin (and incidentally the first classics not to get a classics cover, as other ideas won the day) have been edited and are now in the proof reading stages. It is our intention to publish these books together with the paperback versions of previously published books.
A little down the path from these, we are coming towards the final edit of Endgame Labyrinths by current study World Champion Steffen Nielsen and Jacob Aagaard (that’s I), Playing the English by our favourite, and yours, Nikos Ntirlis and Magic Moves by Michal Konopka.
Sam Shankland has delivered Theoretical Rook Endings and Jacob Aagaard (me) has finished the writing of Conceptual Rook Endings. Both are meant to be out in hardback August.
More of our coming books will come on Chesstempo.com. So far we have focused on making the Yusupov series available. They are almost at the end of the conversion process. As never books will be handed to them in more pliable formats, the process will be faster.
Dear readers, you might be interested in this eloquent podcast. It is a detailed discussion about the Quality Chess book of the World Championship tournament in San Luis in 2005. The podcast is hosted by Ben Johnson, with his guest for this episode being Dr. Christopher Chabris. Their description is “A tournament book with sparkling games and annotations, a mini cheating scandal, at a crossroad moment in chess history.”
The podcast can be found here.
Further information about the book, including how to purchase it, is available here
On a separate note, you might also be interested in the regular chess tips being posted by Jacob Aagaard on Twitter. They can be found here.
We are very happy to announce we are publishing the following two titles in paperback and hardcover, Grandmaster Training Camp 1 – Calculation! and Playing the Sveshnikov.
Grandmaster Training Camp 1 – Calculation! offers you a unique chance to participate in a training camp with Super-GM Sam Shankland, as he works through 300 problems set to him by his long-time trainer, GM Jacob Aagaard. Take the chance to compare yourself with one of the strongest Grandmasters in the world!
GM Sam Shankland is the 2018 US Champion, 2016 Olympiad gold medal winner for teams, and 2014 individual gold medal winner.
To celebrate the release of the book, Killer Chess Training is organising a Calculation Bootcamp with GM Sam Shankland, with fresh material.
The Sicilian Sveshnikov is an ideal weapon based on sound principles of fast development and seizing central space. Playing the Sveshnikov offers a complete repertoire for Black in the Sveshnikov, including secondary recommendations against certain key variations.
Milos Pavlovic is a former Yugoslav Champion who has held the grandmaster title since 1993.
We are continuing our free-fourth-book 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.
Please note that if you buy a Special Offer and are in the EU zone, we will add one free book. For example, if a European buys the Special Offer on our award-winning Grandmaster Preparation series, then we would send the 6 hardcovers, plus one free extra book.
The previous default option on the free book was CHAMPIONS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM by Ftacnik, Kopec, and Browne.
For January and February, we will switch the default option to CUTTING EDGE 1: THE OPEN SICILIAN and for March and April to CUTTING EDGE 2: SICILIAN NAJDORF 6.Be3. Both books are written by Milos Pavlovic, who is also the author of the upcoming Playing the Sveshnikov. But if you already have that book(s), or would prefer a different free book, then send us an email to salesgroup@qualitychess.co.uk with your order number, asking to have it replaced with one of the following titles:
ATTACKING THE SPANISH
CARLSEN’S ASSAULT ON THE THRONE
CHAMPIONS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
CUTTING EDGE 1: THE OPEN SICILIAN
CUTTING EDGE 2: SICILIAN NAJDORF 6.Be3
GRANDMASTER BATTLE MANUAL
GRANDMASTER VERSUS AMATEUR
REGGIO EMILIA 2007/2008
SAN LUIS 2005
TACTIMANIA
THE ALTERMAN GAMBIT GUIDE – BLACK GAMBITS VOLUME 1
THE ALTERMAN GAMBIT GUIDE – BLACK GAMBITS VOLUME 2
Our 2023 Chess prediction quiz can be found here.
These are the images of the catalogue… Will be uploaded tomorrow as PDF I hope.
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