Sean Marsh, writing at The Week in Chess, selected his best books of last year in Off the Shelf – The Best of 2010. As the screenshot below shows, we can be happy that Jacob’s Attacking Manuals 1 and 2 both made the list. Also the bonus of a new spelling of Jacob’s surname.
The full review of the Attacking Manuals says good things such as “They can rightly be considered as the flagships of the Quality Chess productions.”
That is quite unprofessional of them to get the spelling wrong, however a big well done to Jacob for this award!
Attacking Manual Vol.2 honestly gets the top spot in my opinion. Truly a magnificent book– the equivalent of a shelf of books and among the greatest middlegame books of all time. TRUTH!
Now I can’t wait to read the new Jacob Argh!!!gaard book.
Unfortunately, Sean Marsh writes rather useless reviews. Not much better than John Elburg.
According to Elburg all books are masterpieces. I rate Sean quite a bit over that. Obviously all of our books ARE masterpieces – even if some of them are failed ones…
My favourite book of 2010 is GM2. John’s is GM4. Andrew was too busy with the Karpov books to have a favourite…
Hey,
a few questions comes to my mind.
1) what about a discount for book collections? (like attacking manual 1 & 2; Gm rep. 3-5; yusupov series 1-3 etc?)
2) do you have a plan to get out “build up your chess series” in harcover?
3) when people have a choice between softcover and hardcover what is the preffered choice? do you have any summary for that? I am only curious.
1) There are a few issues there; one of them being the way the website works. It has honestly been a low priority for me to do this. When the whole Yusupov series is out, there will definitely be a discount, but before that there is a decent discount on shipping when you order more books.
2) Yes. It is partly a cash flow issue and partly organisational. Volumes 1&3 are already available in hardcover.
3) No comment.