Quality Chess

Yusupov’s Chess School Award Winners

Thinking Inside the Box finished GM Jacob

2018/2019
a good place to start

Aagaard’s Grandmaster Preparation series and

Fundamentals

was nominated for the ECF book of the Year

and favoured in the Facebook group for Chess
Book Collectors as the Best Chess Book of
2017
Beyond the Basics
where you go next

GM Artur Yusupov’s
“I can see that I’ve been rather
groundbreaking series
was recognised by the
spoiled by the excellence of
World Chess Federation
as the best instructional
Quality Chess’ offerings! ...it’s
chess books with the
first ever Boleslavsky
not really fair to expect the same
Medal. level from other publishers...”
worth aspiring to!
Mastery

Since our first titles were published in October 2004, Quality

Chess has found favour with the public and critics alike, winning GM Matthew Sadler, New in Chess
the following Book of the Year awards: ChessCafe: Learn from the
Legends (2005), Pump Up Your Rating (2013). Association of Chess
Professionals: GM Preparation: Calculation (2013), From GM to
Top Ten (2014). FIDE’s Boleslavsky Medal: Build Up Your Chess
1-3 (2008), Attacking Manual 1&2 (2011). ChessPublishing: GM
Repertoire – Vol. 3 (2009), Vol. 2 (2010), Vol. 9 (2011), The King’s
Gambit (2013), 1.e4 vs. The French, Caro-Kann & Philidor (2014),
Playing 1.e4 e5 (2016). English Chess Federation: San Luis 2005
(2007), Attacking Manual 1&2 (2010), How I Beat Fischer’s Record
(2013) & Positional Decision Making in Chess (2015).

Grandmaster Preparation 6
hardbacks for
the price of

In 2017 we sponsored the Dibyendu Barua Academy in Kolkata

with a complete set of Quality Chess books.
 Improvement Books Improvement Books Opening Books

Boris Gelfand Vladimir Kramnik Aabling-Thomsen & Agermose Jensen

Technical Decision The Inside Story The Electrifying Elephant Gambit
Making in Chess
Kramnik’s long-term manager Danish Chess hooligans providing
Gelfand’s award-winning series Carsten Hensel tells the inside propaganda for the most direct way to
continues with a deep look at story of working with the Russian face the open games. What’s not to like?
the final phase of the game. ex-World Champion.

Michael Roiz
The Queen’s Indian Defence
Sam Shankland Viswanathan Anand
Small Steps to Giant Israeli International and second to the
Improvement Michiel Abeln has been granted elite, GM Michael Roiz, delivers the
access to Anand and his coaches follow-up to his best-selling Grandmaster
Double Olympiad gold for this unique in-depth look at Repertoire book on the Nimzo-Indian,
medal winner and 2018 US how a five-times World Champion completing his repertoire.
Champion, Sam Shankland prepares for a clash at the highest
delivers a forensic investigation level. Antonios Pavlidis
into pawn play. The Sicilian Taimanov
The former Greek Champion delivers
Smith & Tikkanen Jacob Aagaard an obsessively researched and analysed
The Woodpecker Method repertoire for Black in the most flexible
The Chess from Scratch series Sicilian main line.
The two Swedish Grandmasters of textbooks and workbooks are
explain and demonstrate the designed to take the reader from
main aspects of the path they learning the rules of the game to
took to the title. playing competitively with skill John Shaw – Playing 1.e4
and confidence. French Defence &
Sicilian Sidelines
Sicilian Main Lines

These titles complete this

three-volume series, giving
White a practical and
aggressive 1.e4 repertoire.

Boris Avrukh – 1.d4

2A KID & Grunfeld
2B Dynamic Systems
Boris Avrukh completes his
re-imagination of a 21st
century 1.d4 repertoire.
Other great improvement books published in 2018 are We will continue our tradition of bringing classics back to life, with
Jan Markos: Under the Surface, Jaan Ehlvest: Grandmaster Opening Kotov: The Science of Strategy, Tal & Stetsko: The Chess Alchemist
Preparation and Jacob Aagaard: A Matter of Technique. and Efim Geller: Killer Chess.