We have published a number of opening books, and I would like to hear from readers how well (surely not badly?) they have worked when you put them into practice. I also like to keep an eye on whether top-level players are using the lines our authors have suggested, and the new ideas that they […]
A few of the questions we received concerning the lines and omissions (how can you avoid omissions?) to Grandmaster Repertoire 1 – 1.d4 volume one, have been covered by Boris Avrukh in a pgn file, which can be found in the free e-books section. Jacob Aagaard
Our authors usually either start as our friends or end up that way, so we like to see them playing well: Mihail Marin has just finished first equal in the Reykjavik Open, with his 1.c4 repertoire scoring heavily. The April FIDE rating list shows Tiger Hillarp Persson as Sweden’s new Number 1 at a chunky
Last night I was at a local production at the King’s Theatre in Glasgow of the musical CHESS together with my wife and her ABBA loving friends. The quality of the production was varied, with a few stunning performances. The story shows little understanding of the actual game, and draws on Fischer, Karpov and Korchnoi
We are still improving the website, which means that it is not working in perfect order. We are using a shareware program for the site, and it has certain limitations we are trying to get around. One of them is the ordering of the books on the site. For instance, in the coming soon category
Today we got a bit of a surprise. The world’s best chess writer (in my opinion), Mihail Marin, has been writing a book on the English for us for some time. He is actually a good bit over his deadline. What he said today, is that besides the 128 pages on 1.c4 c6 I have
We try to keep our website up-to-date with details of reviews of our books. For example, today I added a few quotes from a great review by IM Jeremy Silman on Boris Avrukh’s Grandmaster Repertoire 1. Opinions on our books are always welcome, including constructive criticism. John Shaw
I am finally writing effectively on the Attacking Manual 2. As always when I begin on a new book, I was very low on confidence, but this has now shifted and I feel that I will be very happy about this book. Hopefully I will be able to finish it so that it will be