Hi guys, So, we have managed to cut through the red tape. The books are going out and we have used the time to make some improvements to our distribution system, especially to the US. Hopefully more will come soon! We luckily were already registered for VAT in Poland, so this was not a problem. […]
Cutting through Red Tape Read Post »
Dear Quality Chess Customer, The arrival of 2021 has brought about some reluctant optimism to our fellow consciousness, but also its own set of challenges. We are based in Glasgow, UK, which has brought two particular challenges. First off, we are seemingly the global epicentre of the pandemic at the moment. We have more deaths
Hi guys, I wanted to give two solid dates for you and one shaky. Anyway, just an update on various things. But first off, if you are a member of The Chess Book Collectors group on Facebook, please vote on your favourite chess cover of 2019. It is a little thing to do to recognise
Big publication date – 15 July Read Post »
Saturday I made a bad mistake. While packing up web orders, I sent out the final copy of my first book for Quality Chess Practical Chess Defence, which is now not available through the website. Shops will still have it, but we are out. At the moment we are not reprinting. If I in 1-2
Our friend Renier Castellanos has written another blog post for us. To download it as a PGN file go here. Jamie Santos Latasa – Sophie Milliet, Sunway Sitges Open 2019 Opening Preparation As expressed in my previous blog post (see the Taimanov in Action) being well prepared in the opening is one of the key
The Nimzo-Indian in action Read Post »
Our friend Renier returns with annotations of a recent game. You can see the game here or you can download it with this link. David Navara – Robert Ris European Club Cup 14.11.2019 Renier Castellanos Trust, but verify A common tradition in chess is to copy our colleagues whenever they play a new idea in
A Recurring Mistake by committed by Super-GMs Read Post »
Our good friend (why still?) IM Renier Castellanos annotated an interesting game from the first round of the European Club Cup for us, after spotting that a sub-2400 IM used one of Pavlidis’s novelties to hold Mickey Adams. You can download it for ChessBase here or just read the annotations below: Michael Adams – Rasmus
The Taimanov in Action Read Post »
Some of you will know that I have taken on a volunteer position in FIDE, as Chairman of the Trainer’s Commission. In the last year a lot of my spare time and some of my work time has gone into this work. It is difficult for quite a number of reasons, mainly because nothing ever
TRG Trainer Awards Read Post »