We are working very hard. We have finished Attacking Manual 2 and only need to perform a final proofread before it goes to the printer. No problems with the 13th January publication date, last time I checked with them. We will also be sending two classics, My System and Questions of Modern Chess Theory for reprint in the near future. The same goes for Build up your Chess 2, which had run out. In that connection I should say that Boost your Chess 1 has been typeset and that only proofreading and correcting commas remains. It is on schedule for the 27th January publication, but would be pushed back 1-2 weeks, should we not be able to finish GM2 in time.
Because it is of course Boris Avrukh’s follow-up to his first 1.d4 repertoire, Grandmaster Repertoire 2 – 1.d4 volume 2, where he will consider all other replies than 1…d5, which everyone is always asking about. It has been more than one year in the making, but the author is in good shape still, and has sent the final update (last week). As Boris is not a fluent English speaker, time is pressing on GM John Shaw to make it all sound beautiful. The 27th January is still possible, but it might be sharp. It requires that we hand in the book the 8th of January to the printer, a time where some of us are still hung over…
As always, this is a list of what we think, hope and pray will happen. But life is tough and this is a lot of books (and Andrew will play Hastings and Jacob will continue on part time till the end of January, so John will have to do all the work!).
| Jacob Aagaard | Attacking Manual Volume 2 | 13 January 2010 | |
| Jacob Aagaard | Attacking Manual Volume 1 2nd edition | 13 January 2010 | |
| Artur Yusupov | Boost your Chess 1 | 27 January 2010 | |
| Boris Avrukh | Grandmaster Repertoire 2 – 1.d4 Volume Two | 27 January 2010 | |
| Boris Alterman | The Alterman Gambit Guide – White Gambits | 24 February 2010 | |
| Lars Schandorff | Grandmaster Repertoire 6 – The Caro-Kann | 24 February 2010 | |
| Tibor Karolyi | Karpov’s Strategic Wins: Volume 1 – 1961-1985 | 10 March 2010 | |
| Tibor Karolyi | Karpov’s Strategic Wins 2: Volume 2 – 1986 – 2009 | 10 March 2010 | |
| John Shaw | Quality Chess Puzzle Book | 24 March 2010 | |
| Christian Bauer | Play the Scandinavian Defence | 24 March 2010 | |
| Lubomir Ftacnik | Grandmaster Repertoire 5 – The Sicilian Defence | 07 April 2010 | |
| Mihail Marin | Grandmaster Repertoire 4 – The English Opening vol. 2 | 07 April 2010 | |
| Boris Alterman | The Alterman Gambit Guide – Black Gambits | 28 April 2010 | |
| John Shaw | The King’s Gambit | 28 April 2010 |
| Artur Yusupov | Build up your chess 2 – reprint | 13 January 2010 | |
| Jacob Aagaard | Attacking Manual Volume 2 | 13 January 2010 | |
| Jacob Aagaard | Attacking Manual Volume 1 2nd edition | 13 January 2010 | |
| Artur Yusupov | Boost your Chess 1 | 27 January 2010 | |
| Boris Avrukh | Grandmaster Repertoire 2 – 1.d4 Volume Two | 27 January 2010 | |
| Boris Alterman | The Alterman Gambit Guide – White Gambits | 27 January 2010 | |
| Mihail Marin | Grossmeister Repertoire 3 – 1.c4 c5 | 27 January 2010 | |
| John Shaw | Quality Chess Puzzle Book | 25 February 2010 | |
| Christian Bauer | Play the Scandinavian Defence | 25 March 2010 | |
| Lars Schandorff | Grandmaster Repertoire 6 – The Caro-Kann | 25 February 2010 | |
| Tibor Karolyi | Karpov’s Strategic Wins: Volume 1 – 1961-1985 | 03 March 2010 | |
| Tibor Karolyi | Karpov’s Strategic Wins 2: Volume 2 – 1986 – 2009 | 03 March 2010 |
Maybe it is my browser, but I think you forgot to put the dates in the new schedule.
Lyndell,
They were there, then they disappeared, they shall return…
How many pages approximately has GM Rep 2 come to so far?
It is hard to evaluate before we are far into the typesetting. I would think it is 400+ pages
Can we get pdf extract from GENIUS IN BACKGROUND?
Is there anything wrong with the one I put up last week?
I can’t see any nowhere!
@Abramov Anjuhin
The excerpt is on the Free e-books page.
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/docs/10/free_ebooks/
We will put a link from the book’s individual page as well.
Wasn’t Marin’s book supposed to be out in February? Did he turn in another 700 page manuscript that needs chopping down!?
He had to revise his plans for finishing the book. He is planning to hand in the last chapter early February, which means it will take maybe another two months to finish it.
I read here http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/korchnoi-spassky-2-5-1-5-at-half-time/#more-20286 that Victor the Terrible is writing a book on the French. I hope that it is for Quality Chess.
So do I!
Is there a chance to get a pdf extract of Avrukh’s volume two?
Will there be a second edition of Avrukh’s GM repertoire vol.1 ? Also when will there be a GM repertoire based on 1. e4 and what will it’s choices be regarding openings?
Thanks.
@TonyRo
Let’s hope nothing he writes is ever chopped down! The guy has amzing ideas and insights!
Cheers.
“The 27th January is still possible, but it might be sharp. It requires that we hand in the book [GM Rep 2] the 8th of January to the printer…”–How is the translation coming along so far?
Hey Nic you sound like you need GM Rep 2 pretty bad……….I must say I’m the same I have studied GM Rep 1 a lot and a happy with my repertoire against 1…d5 but I’m trying to play Fianchetto Sytems v Indian Defences without really knowing the most testing moves. So I’m with you. Pleeeeaaaaase bring it out on the 27th with no delays!!
@Nic and Nick
Dont’t you think it might be quite annoying
for the publishers to answer your answers?
You sound like children, waiting nervously for
their birthday present…
The book will come soon,
in the meantime,
you have to
a) use other books
b)THINK for yourself in the opening
both should be manageable, at least for one two month…
We will see how things work out. There are some problems with the printers, something with -15 degrees. Also, some idiot on the 2nd floor in our building set off the firealarm, so we had to spend an afternoon in the pub… All wastes of time. We are working as fast as we can, but 27th looks a week early at the moment.
I’m as anxious as anyone to get GM Rep. 2 but rushed work is usually bad work. Take the time you need to get things right. It will be more important in the long-term.
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