We have two new Chess Classics on the way. On 13th March we will publish Key Elements of Chess Strategy and Key Elements of Chess Tactics, both by Georgy Lisitsin. You can read a Strategy excerpt here and you can read a Tactics excerpt here.
The titles of both books tells the story, though the excerpts will show even more. Both books are based on a celebrated classic from the Soviet Chess School. I hope you enjoy reading the excerpts and the books, when they are available.
I’m looking forward to working through both texts. Thank you for producing the English translation!
I hope these volumes also get published through Forward Chess, or via Kindle, as I am unable to house or carry around physical books.
Hi Dave, sorry but digital versions will not be published. Our publishing rights on these titles are for physical books only. On the plus side, our hardcovers are beautiful!
The links to the excerpts are not working properly. They work when going via the pages for the books themselves. From what I can see, the links in this blog entry are missing a dash before “Excerpt.pdf”.
Hi Griot, thanks for letting us know. Those links should be back to working again now.
These look excellent based on the extracts . Many thanks.
Hello,
Not sure if it is the right place for that question…
Anyway, looking at the 2024 QC catalog, I don’t see any mention of volume 2 of Spassky’s best games by Karolyi…
Is that second volume cancelled or just potponed ?
Volume 2 of the Spassky series will definitely be published. Maybe it will be late 2024, maybe 2025. Right now, its publication date would just be a guess.
I can add that we have other books we expect out in 2024 that were not in the leaflet. We try not to do what we often have done, and promise too much. Spassky 2 will come. So will other books on the way.
Jacob,
Can we also expect your book on Middlegame technique in 2024 or it will be postponed until 2025?
Thanks!
Did I really see the name C.L. in a catalogue bei Quality chess?
I was wondering are you going to release an excerpt of Turbo Charge Your Tactics?
Thomas, assuming C.L. = Cyrus Lakdawala, then yes you will have seen that name in our 2024 catalogue.
RWL: very soon on both ‘Turbo-Charge Your Tactics’ excerpts. Meaning this week on both excerpts. Just a few more final checks first.
On a side note, I am anxiously waiting for Material Imbalances by Flores Rios. If it is anything close to Vladimir Chuchelov’s coveted Material Imbalance course he uses for his GM training sessions, I will be first in line to purchase it when it becomes available.
Correction, Chess Imbalances by Flores Rios and Strategic Imbalances by Chuchelov. I misspoke.
It is mentioned that this book. originally one volume, inspired Bobby Fischer to learn russian but this one doesn’t contain Ragozin opening analysis doesn’t it? Probably confusing with another Russian book.
“It is mentioned that this book. originally one volume, inspired Bobby Fischer to learn russian but this one doesn’t contain Ragozin opening analysis doesn’t it? Probably confusing with another Russian book.”
I believe it was more than one book that inspired Fischer to learn Russian. The man who analysed the Ragozin was Lipnitsky, and that analysis was mentioned by Fischer (in “My 60 Memorable Games” if my memory is working), though that analysis is not in our “Questions of Modern Chess Theory”. Also, I think I once saw a photo of Fischer reading the Russian version of Maizelis’s book, which in English is “Soviet Chess Primer”. I can’t recall if there is similar direct evidence about the Lisitsin book, but I am reliably informed (by the Russian publisher) that Lisitsin’s book is “one of the most famous and legendary Soviet chess manuals”. So hard to imagine that Fischer would have ignored it.