The eagerly anticipated World Cup began in Baku on Friday afternoon, and the chess community can undoubtedly look forward to over three weeks of high quality competition and drama. For Quality Chess aficionados, however, there was much more than a World Cup at stake. Just as the first turn is often the most exciting part of […]
World Cup Quiz – Round 1 update Read Post »
Do you know what you will be doing for the next six months? We do. The real question will be if we can do everything as fast as we want. For example: Boris Gelfand constantly gets all these annoying tournament invitations that distracts him from the book… We do not really have dates for anything
Publishing Schedule for the next six months Read Post »
Most of chess publishing is long hard work for very little money. A few thousand copies is what a chess book sells and there are many who want a slice of the cake. Retailers need to make a living, so there goes half the money. Outside the chess specialists, there is a requirement for middlemen,
Positional Decision Making in Chess gets ready for reprint Read Post »
Being over 40 and an optimist, I think the recent poll got it wrong. A clear majority think that chess is best played by those less than 30 years old. Obviously we appreciate the support for our star author Boris Gelfand, but we fear a few people have voted this way for entirely the wrong
Ageism in chess – and a bit of market research Read Post »
So, finally I am getting around to write a publishing schedule. Sorry it took so long, though I am not too ashamed to have been producing books rather than talk about them… (Follow the links to see excerpts for the five top books) There is a few things we have alluded to on the blog
The long awaited publishing schedule – with a few surprises (hopefully good ones!) Read Post »
It was our intention to publish Python Strategy together with Grandmaster Repertoire 1A – The Catalan on the 29th of April. Unfortunately we did not manage to finish it in time and we have had to leave it for the next publication date, which is the 27th of May. It is an advantage for the
Minor change of plans Read Post »
Here it is, I am going to make some accurate predictions about a few future publications. Accurate, in the sense that I will give dates when I believe these books will be out. How accurate this turns out to be only time will tell. So here are my predictions: 29th April Boris Avrukh’s book Grandmaster
Jumping off the bridge Read Post »
Usually I write mainly about what we are doing as a team in the office, write a few more complicated posts about things I am thinking about and so on. But I have not written much about what I have been doing personally the last year – for a simple reason – I have not
“What has been interesting is seeing how much easier it is to work on a project once how it’s going is divorced from how I’m doing. It frees me up to experience all the ups and downs and swings and roundabouts of my emotional life while continuing to move forward step by step and day
I have at some point promised to put up monthly updates to our publishing schedule. Well, things never work out exactly as we intend, but I think I am in reasonable time with this one. There are a few things to point out. First off, Moranda’s Race up the Rankings has been cancelled. We might
Looking towards the spring Read Post »