We have been battling a bit with ill health, tax returns (and an inept, now fired, accountant), commas and the usual Scottish autumn weather. As a result everything has slided a bit. Reggio Emilia 2007/2008 is printed, and can be ordered from our webshop, but we are not releasing it for wider distribution until Genius […]
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We are delighted to announce that Artur Yusupov has won the prestigious Boleslavsky Medal for his series Build up your Chess. This prize is awarded by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, to the best instructional book (it is also open to computer software or articles). Winning a worldwide prize is remarkable, but the standard of
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We have made some slight changes to the publishing schedule. Latest version looks like this: author title expected Marin/Garrett Reggio Emilia 2007/2008 11 November 2009 Tibor Karolyi Genius in the Background 11 November 2009 Jacob Aagaard Attacking Manual Volume 1 25 November 2009 Jacob Aagaard Attacking Manual Volume 2 25 November 2009 John Shaw Quality
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Unfortunately it seems that Boris Avrukh is falling a bit behind his own and our expectations to what he would be able to do with Grandmaster Repertoire 2 here in the autumn. The book is close to being done, but there are many lines such as 1.d4 g6, 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.g3 Bb4+ that
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OCTOBER 14th Marin/Garrett Reggio Emilia 2007/2008 28th Tibor Karolyi Genius in the Background 28th Boris Avrukh Grandmaster Repertoire 2 – 1.d4 Volume Two NOVEMBER 15th Jacob Aagaard Attacking Manual Volume 2 15th Jacob Aagaard Attacking Manual Volume 1 2nd edition 29th John Shaw Quality Chess Puzzle Book 29th Boris Alterman The Alterman Gambit Guide –
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In our next release, Champions of the New Millennium, we have changed the type of paper we are using. Instead of the usual Multioffset paper, we are using the classier Galerie paper. This works very well with the colour photos in the book and makes the book. The quality of the paper made me think
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It is very difficult to predict when authors will finish their works – also for the authors. Writing a book, even about chess, is an unpredictable business, and so is the life of the chess professionals we prefer as authors to our books. For example, Mihail Marin was working on his book on the English
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Tuesday we finally changed website provider, giving us a chance to change some information on the site that had grown old – as for example expected publishing dates. This also brings about the chance for creating a newsletter again, something we have been missing for a while. We would use this to announce our new
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