We will soon have a new addition to our Classics series – The Science of Strategy by Alexander Kotov. An excerpt of this book can be read here.
The publication date will be the same as Boris Avrukh’s Dynamic Systems – GM Repertoire 2B. And that date should be April 3rd if all goes to plan in printing.
I like the cover, good job!!
Looks good. Was this previously published in English? Batsford published some of his books years ago including of course his famous Think like a grandmaster.
Looking forward to this one – I really like the Classics series! Any concrete plans for more books in this series?
@Ray:
Geller + Tal & Stetsko are already in the catalogue….
Not published in English like this before, as far as our translator and I know.
Kotov did use a few of the same games in other books, but the annotations are generally different here.
And Kotov naturally mentioned strategy in other books, but not to the same extent as here. To give an example: “Think Like a Grandmaster” has an 8-page section called “Planning – The Centre”. The first chapter of “The Science of Strategy” – 88 pages – is a greatly expanded discussion and explanation of the same topic.
@Thomas
You’re right – I was hoping for a hint for next year 🙂 .
@John Shaw
Thanks for the clarification.
Any news on the Taimanov book?
@craig
All men are on deck. Think May guaranteed.
@Ray
We have more coming. Which ones are not finalised.
Hi
Any chance of a translation of Dreihundert Schachpartien (Tarrasch) in your classics series?
Yours
Ray
@QC: Do you have any plans for a new book on the QPOs, or at least a selection of them? Avrukh’s book is from 2011. The London and some other QPOs have moved quite a bit since Carlsen, Kramnik, Jobava and others play them regularly.
@Andre
Playing 1.d4 d5 offered some alternatives.
Apart from Geller’s collected games, I would immediately pre-order any comprehensive game collection by either Capablanca or Karpov (Dvoretsky did some great analysis here, which is unfortunately scarcely available with only a few games in some of his books). Just to be in the ranks of the most-asked question…any chances?@Ray English
@Jacob Aagaard
Great, looking forward to more news 🙂 .
Interesting you mention Geller, I was looking through some games he annotated and they are very well done and hold up, to some degree, to scrutiny from a strong engine (Stockfish 10).
Geller was a fantastically strong player, who just fell short of being world-champion. His gane against Mecking in the Tsjichorin is a positional masterpiece@John A Johnson
Hi Jacob,
Do you envisage to edit some days “Alekhine’s Heritage” by the same Kotov ? Actually this book exists in russian and 2 tomes by (shark)-editor Sam Sloan, and 4 tomes but impossible to find in spanish and in descriptive notation.
I own all your classic serie which is a goldmine.
Any chance of a GM Repertoire book by Roiz? I think he might become the new Avrukh 🙂 – I really like his books on the Nimzo and Queen’s Indian. His explanations are very clear.
Hi everyone at QC,
I wanted to ask if there was any more information/a better indication of a publication date for Negi 5?
Thank you very much.
James
@James2
We are not yet in a position to give a date, but we are hopeful that it won’t be too much longer.
@Andrew Greet
Thanks Andrew!
@Jean-Marie
We shall consider it.
@Jacob Aagaard
Thanks Jacob !
Are there any plans to make this and other classics available on Forwardchess?
Is there a date for when Kotov will be on Forward Chess?
@John NS
@David A Parker
When we publish an English translation of an original Russian book, it will generally be as a physical book only – no e-book versions. That is all that the standard contracts allow.