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Having mulled this over for some time, we have decided to yield to the demand for hardcover editions of some of our titles. I had originally said that it would increase the price by 20-30 euro, and it would if we were planning to sell the books through the usual outlets. However, we will only […]

In Quality Chess we have aspired to make the best chess books possible since our first books in 2004, Learn from the Legends and Experts vs. the Sicilian. Overall we believe we have been successful in our endeavours and have produced some memorable books, such as Understanding Chess Tactics, The Sveshnikov Reloaded and the Grandmaster

Here, on New Year’s eve, I have finally uploaded Attacking Manual 2 to the printer. It will thus hopefully be ready for shipping from our warehouse from the 20th of January. I have uploaded the first 15 of the 464 pages as an excerpt. I will put it on the main site and so on,

We enjoy hearing from chessplayers who study our books and feel the benefit. The photo below shows players from the Sachovy Klub Lipa in a pub in the Czech Republic working hard on Artur Yusupov’s Build up your Chess 2. At least I assume they are working hard.

Israel did not play well at the European Team Championship in Novi Sad this year. Overall the team got 50%. The hero in a lot of their matches was Quality Chess author Boris Avrukh, who often was the sole winner in a 2,5-1,5 victory.

We have an excerpt ready for Reggio Emilia 2007/2008, the tournament book about the Golden Jubilee edition of this famous tournament. I think the book is about 4-5 weeks away from publishing, meaning that the schedule has slided a little bit again. Let’s blame Andrew who is away at the European Team Championship as the

The Royal Mail is facing a series of strikes, mainly because they fear an effective sorting machine will put manual sorting workers out of work, as I understand it. At the moment the Royal Mail is losing a penny on every letter it delivers. This conflict should not affect Quality Chess or purchases on our

Final Scores: GM C. McNab 8 IM N. Mikkelsen 7 FM N. Berry 5½ FM D. Eggleston 5 IM A. Greet 5 M. Mitchell 4 A. Tate 4 FM M. Andersen 2½ FM C. Thomson 2½ J. Grant 1½ A brilliant 2650 performance by GM Colin McNab, who is the main proof-reader of Quality Chess.