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John Shaw: The King’s Gambit is going to the printer next week. It will be 672 or 680 pages. It will be released together with Playing the Trompowsky and Kotronias on the King’s Indian at the end of June, but we will probably use the chance to shoot out any websales we have earlier, if […]

John just received this e-mail: Dear John, I pre-ordered your book “King’s gambit” last autumn for my son as a Christmas present. Do you know when it will be published? Regards, xxx

Last time I came with a publishing schedule, I felt rather risky when I put in the 14th March as the publication date for three of our books. In the end this was a combination of blind optimism in both our own abilities to finish the books in time, as well as the printer to

John is a bit moody these days. Suddenly it is “two weeks till the end of the King’s Gambit”, then it is “this bloody book will never die!” the truth is somewhere inbetween. It is clearly a race; will John complete the book in this lifetime? Anyway, we have asked the printer for a quote

Before anyone says anything: This is not all the books we ever want to publish or even this year. This is just the ones I feel most confident about telling you about (as regular readers of this blog will know, we do change our minds, make other plans or simple get bogged down for a

Finally I dare the return to the most dangerous and difficult activity in my life – the inaccurate and fraudulent prediction of when we might be able to put some Quality Chess books your way… Jacob Aagaard Attacking Manual 1 – German December Jacob Aagaard Attacking Manual 2 – German December Author Title 2013 Artur

Nikos and I have already discussed our lines after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 for Playing the French, but as he has analysed everything with usual tenacity, it was quite interesting for us to see what the public thought. Especially as 3…Be7 is the current trend in repertoire books (and Emanuel is working on 3…Nf6)

Here is an updated publishing schedule: Marc Esserman Mayhem in the Morra NOW Lars Schandorff Playing 1.d4 – A Grandmaster Guide – The Queen’s Gambit NOW Lars Schandorff Playing 1.d4 – A Grandmaster Guide – The Indian Defences August Jacob Aagaard Grandmaster Preparation – Positional Play (Hardback) August/September Boris Avrukh Grandmaster Repertoire 11 – Beating

I am focusing on the match in Moscow and working on finishing additional books whenever I have a free moment. Being away from the family gives you this chance to work from 7am to 12pm that you just do not get at home! Meanwhile Colin is quite far in the editing of MAYHEM IN THE