Scottish chess publishing company
Quality Chess UK Ltd (known as Quality Chess ) is a chess publishing company, founded in 2004 by International Master Ari Ziegler , Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard and Grandmaster John Shaw . The company is based in Glasgow .
In 2024 it was announced that Quality Chess bought New in Chess and Popular Chess . [ 1]
The company focuses on quality of publications rather than quantity of books. In 2005, the book Learn from the Legends: Chess Champions at Their Best by Grandmaster Mihail Marin won the ChessCafe.com "Book of the Year" award.[ 2] San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion by Alik Gershon and Igor Nor won the English Chess Federation 's "Book of the Year 2007" award.[ 3] Attacking Manual 1 & 2 won the 2010 English Chess Federation book of the year prize.[ 4]
Marin, Mihail (2004). Learn from the Legends: Chess Champions at Their Best . Quality Chess. ISBN 91-975243-2-8 .Rogozenko, Dorian (2005). Sveshnikov Reloaded . Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-975243-5-3 ;
Aagaard, Jacob (2006). Practical Chess Defence. Quality Chess . ISBN 978-91-975244-4-5 .Gershon, Alik; Nor, Igor (2006). San Luis 2005: How Chess Found Its Champion . Quality Chess. ISBN 91-976005-2-0 .
Marin, Mihail (2007). A Spanish Opening Repertoire for Black . Quality Chess. ISBN 91-976005-0-4 .Marin, Mihail (2007). Beating the Open Games . Quality Chess. ISBN 91-976004-3-1 .Vigorito, David (2007). Challenging the Nimzo-Indian . Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-976005-5-2 .
Vigorito, David (2007). Play the Semi-Slav . Quality Chess. ISBN 91-85779-01-6 .
Nimzowitsch, Aron (2007). My System ISBN 978-1-907982-14-9 .Aagaard, Jacob (2008). The Attacking Manual: Basic Principles . Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-976004-0-8 .Marin, Mihail ; Garrett, Yuri (2009). Reggio Emilia 2007/2008 . Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-32-9 Karolyi, Tibor ; Aplin, Nick (2009). Genius in the Background . Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-37-4 Brunello, Sabino (2009). Attacking the Spanish . Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-1-76 .
Aagaard, Jacob (2010).The Attacking Manual 2: Technique and Praxis . Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-976004-1-5 .Boris Avrukh (2010) Grandmaster Repertoire 2 - 1.d4 volume 2. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-33-6 .Boris Alterman (2010) The Alterman Gambit - White Gambits. Quality Chess. Guide ISBN 978-1-906552-53-4 .Milos Pavlovic (2010) The Cutting Edge 1 - The Open Sicilian. Quality Chess. 1 ISBN 978-1-906552-57-2 .
Alexey Suetin (2010) Soviet Chess Strategy. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-20-6 .
Lars Schandorff (2010) Grandmaster Repertoire 7 - The Caro-Kann. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-56-5 .John Shaw (2010) The Quality Chess Puzzle Book. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1906552121 .Ľubomír Ftáčnik (2010) Grandmaster Repertoire 6 - The Sicilian Defence. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-08-4 .Artur Yusupov (2010) Boost your Chess 2 - Beyond the Basics. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-43-5 .Mihail Marin (2010) Grandmaster Repertoire 4 - The English Opening vol. 2. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-38-1 .Mihail Marin (2010) Grandmaster Repertoire 5 - The English Opening vol. 3. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-59-6 .Christian Bauer (2010) Play the Scandinavian. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-55-8 .Artur Yusupov (2011) Boost your Chess 3 - Mastery. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-44-2 .Milos Pavlovic (2011) The Cutting Edge 2 - Sicilian Najdorf 6.Be3. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-58-9 .
Jacob Aagaard & John Shaw (editors) (2011) Experts on the Anti-Sicilian. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-80-0 .Vladimir Popov (2011) Chess Lessons. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-82-4 .
Tibor Károlyi (2011) Karpov's Strategic Wins 2 - The Prime Years. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-42-8 .Tibor Károlyi (2011) Karpov's Strategic Wins 1 - The Making of a Champion. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-41-1 .Arkadij Naiditsch (2011) Chess Evolution. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-06-4 .Boris Avrukh (2011) Grandmaster Repertoire 8 - The Grunfeld Defence . Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-75-6 .Vasilios Kotronias (2011) The Grandmaster Battle Manual. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-52-7 .Boris Avrukh (2011) Grandmaster Repertoire 9 - The Grunfeld Defence Volume Two. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-00-2 .Glenn Flear (2011) Tactimania. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-98-5 .Artur Yusupov (2011) Chess Evolution 1. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-45-9 .Jacob Aagaard & John Shaw (editors) (2011) Grandmaster vs Amateur. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-84-8 .Boris Alterman (2011) The Alterman Gambit Guide - Black Gambits. Quality Chess. 1 ISBN 978-1-906552-54-1 .Lev Psakhis (2011) Advanced Chess Tactics. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-04-0 .Nikolaos Ntirlis and Jacob Aagaard (2011) Grandmaster Repertoire 10 - The Tarrasch Defence. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-91-6 .
Martin Weteschnik (2012) Chess Tactics from Scratch. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-02-6 .
Mihai Suba (2012) Positional Chess Sacrifices. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-86-2 .Boris Alterman (2012) Alterman Gambit Guide - Black Gambits 2. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-96-1 .Artur Yusupov (2012) Chess Evolution 2. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-46-6 .Jacob Aagaard (2012) Grandmaster Preparation - Calculation. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-30-9 .Marc Esserman (2012) Mayhem in the Morra. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-20-0 .Lars Schandorff (2012) Playing 1.d4 - The Queen's Gambit. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-15-6 .
Lars Schandorff (2012) Playing 1.d4 - The Indian Defences. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-17-0 .
Judit Polgár (2012) How I Beat Fischer's Record (hardcover) - Judit Polgar Teaches Chess 1. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-19-4 .Boris Avrukh (2012) Grandmaster Repertoire 11 - Beating 1.d4 Sidelines. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-12-5 .Jacob Aagaard (2012) Grandmaster Preparation - Positional Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-26-2 .Artur Yusupov (2013) Chess Evolution 3. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-47-3 .Victor Mikhalevski (2013) Grandmaster Repertoire 13 - The Open Spanish. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-44-6 .Marian Petrov (2013) Grandmaster Repertoire 12 - The Modern Benoni. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-59-0 .
Peter Romanovsky (2013) Soviet Middlegame Technique. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-48-4 .Jacob Aagaard (2013) Grandmaster Preparation - Strategic Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-28-6 .John Shaw (2013) The King's Gambit. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-71-8 .Vasilios Kotronias (2013) Kotronias on the King's Indian Fianchetto Systems. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-50-3 .Richard Pert (2013) Playing the Trompowsky. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-75-0 .
Axel Smith (2013) Pump Up Your Rating. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-73-6 .
Emanuel Berg (2013) Grandmaster Repertoire 14 - The French Defence Volume One. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-40-8 Jacob Aagaard and Nikolaos Ntirlis (2013) Playing the French. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-36-1 .Judit Polgár (2013) From GM to Top Ten. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-51-4 .Emanuel Berg (2013) Grandmaster Repertoire 15 - The French Defence Volume Two. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-42-2 .Vasilios Kotronias and Sotiris Logothetis (2013) Carlsen's Assault on the Throne. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-22-0 .Boris Avrukh (2014) Grandmaster Repertoire 17 - The Classical Slav. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-38-5 .Tibor Károlyi (2014) Mikhail Tal's Best Games 1 - The Magic of Youth. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-77-4 .Daniel Gormally (2014) Mating the Castled King. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-71-2 .Jacob Aagaard (2014) Grandmaster Preparation - Attack and Defence. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-69-9 .Jacob Aagaard (2014) Grandmaster Preparation - Endgame Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-32-3 .Vasilios Kotronias (2014) Grandmaster Repertoire 18 - The Sicilian Sveshnikov. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-92-7 .Parimarjan Negi (2014) Grandmaster Repertoire - 1.e4 vs The French, Caro-Kann and Philidor. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-06-0 .Esben Lund (2014) The Secret Life of Bad Bishops. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-906552-19-0 .Judit Polgár (2014) A Game of Queens. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-52-1 .Tiger Hillarp Persson (2014) The Modern Tiger. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-83-5 .Ilya Maizelis (2014) The Soviet Chess Primer. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-99-6 .