Attacking Manual 1+2, Boost your Chess 1 and GM Rep 2 release dates (finally)

We are working very hard. We have finished Attacking Manual 2 and only need to perform a final proofread before it goes to the printer. No problems with the 13th January publication date, last time I checked with them. We will also be sending two classics, My System and Questions of Modern Chess Theory for reprint in the near future. The same goes for Build up your Chess 2, which had run out. In that connection I should say that Boost your Chess 1 has been typeset and that only proofreading and correcting commas remains. It is on schedule for the 27th January publication, but would be pushed back 1-2 weeks, should we not be able to finish GM2 in time.

Because it is of course Boris Avrukh’s follow-up to his first 1.d4 repertoire, Grandmaster Repertoire 2 – 1.d4 volume 2, where he will consider all other replies than 1…d5, which everyone is always asking about. It has been more than one year in the making, but the author is in good shape still, and has sent the final update (last week). As Boris is not a fluent English speaker, time is pressing on GM John Shaw to make it all sound beautiful. The 27th January is still possible, but it might be sharp. It requires that we hand in the book the 8th of January to the printer, a time where some of us are still hung over…

As always, this is a list of what we think, hope and pray will happen. But life is tough and this is a lot of books (and Andrew will play Hastings and Jacob will continue on part time till the end of January, so John will have to do all the work!).

Jacob Aagaard Attacking Manual Volume 2 13 January 2010
Jacob Aagaard Attacking Manual Volume 1 2nd edition 13 January 2010
Artur Yusupov Boost your Chess 1 27 January 2010
Boris Avrukh Grandmaster Repertoire 2 – 1.d4 Volume Two 27 January 2010
Boris Alterman The Alterman Gambit Guide – White Gambits 24 February 2010
Lars Schandorff Grandmaster Repertoire 6 – The Caro-Kann 24 February 2010
Tibor Karolyi Karpov’s Strategic Wins: Volume 1 – 1961-1985 10 March 2010
Tibor Karolyi Karpov’s Strategic Wins 2: Volume 2 – 1986 – 2009 10 March 2010
John Shaw Quality Chess Puzzle Book 24 March 2010
Christian Bauer Play the Scandinavian Defence 24 March 2010
Lubomir Ftacnik Grandmaster Repertoire 5 – The Sicilian Defence 07 April 2010
Mihail Marin Grandmaster Repertoire 4 – The English Opening vol. 2 07 April 2010
Boris Alterman The Alterman Gambit Guide – Black Gambits 28 April 2010
John Shaw The King’s Gambit 28 April 2010
Artur Yusupov Build up your chess 2 – reprint 13 January 2010
Jacob Aagaard Attacking Manual Volume 2 13 January 2010
Jacob Aagaard Attacking Manual Volume 1 2nd edition 13 January 2010
Artur Yusupov Boost your Chess 1 27 January 2010
Boris Avrukh Grandmaster Repertoire 2 – 1.d4 Volume Two 27 January 2010
Boris Alterman The Alterman Gambit Guide – White Gambits 27 January 2010
Mihail Marin Grossmeister Repertoire 3 – 1.c4 c5 27 January 2010
John Shaw Quality Chess Puzzle Book 25 February 2010
Christian Bauer Play the Scandinavian Defence 25 March 2010
Lars Schandorff Grandmaster Repertoire 6 – The Caro-Kann 25 February 2010
Tibor Karolyi Karpov’s Strategic Wins: Volume 1 – 1961-1985 03 March 2010
Tibor Karolyi Karpov’s Strategic Wins 2: Volume 2 – 1986 – 2009 03 March 2010

22 thoughts on “Attacking Manual 1+2, Boost your Chess 1 and GM Rep 2 release dates (finally)”

  1. He had to revise his plans for finishing the book. He is planning to hand in the last chapter early February, which means it will take maybe another two months to finish it.

  2. Will there be a second edition of Avrukh’s GM repertoire vol.1 ? Also when will there be a GM repertoire based on 1. e4 and what will it’s choices be regarding openings?

    Thanks.

  3. “The 27th January is still possible, but it might be sharp. It requires that we hand in the book [GM Rep 2] the 8th of January to the printer…”–How is the translation coming along so far?

  4. Hey Nic you sound like you need GM Rep 2 pretty bad……….I must say I’m the same I have studied GM Rep 1 a lot and a happy with my repertoire against 1…d5 but I’m trying to play Fianchetto Sytems v Indian Defences without really knowing the most testing moves. So I’m with you. Pleeeeaaaaase bring it out on the 27th with no delays!!

  5. @Nic and Nick

    Dont’t you think it might be quite annoying
    for the publishers to answer your answers?
    You sound like children, waiting nervously for
    their birthday present…
    The book will come soon,
    in the meantime,
    you have to
    a) use other books
    b)THINK for yourself in the opening
    both should be manageable, at least for one two month…

  6. We will see how things work out. There are some problems with the printers, something with -15 degrees. Also, some idiot on the 2nd floor in our building set off the firealarm, so we had to spend an afternoon in the pub… All wastes of time. We are working as fast as we can, but 27th looks a week early at the moment.

  7. I’m as anxious as anyone to get GM Rep. 2 but rushed work is usually bad work. Take the time you need to get things right. It will be more important in the long-term.

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