It’s been many years of silence, but I’m happy to report that, after many busy seasons of finishing my PhD, and working in the tech sector, I’ve recently finished writing the second book in my series: Chess Imbalances. I’m very excited about the result, and hope to tell you more in the months to come.

Here’s a link to Quality Chess’s page for the book (provisional release for 2024). More details to come, but for now, I can share the general premise of the book.

The goal of Chess Imbalances is to teach readers how to conduct each material imbalance that regularly occurs in chess. I’m sure you can all see the resemblance with Chess Structures (which dealt with every common pawn structure). The book covers all the usual imbalances, like bishop vs. knight, opposite-colored bishops, rook vs. two minor pieces, etc. Then, I also discuss material compensation in great detail, as we have almost 200 pages devoted to pawn sacrifices, exchange sacrifices, piece sacrifices and even positional queen sacrifices (arguably, my favorite topic). It was a long wait, but I’m very happy with the result, and I hope you all look forward to it as well.

We’ll be in touch! Feel free to post some questions, and I’ll be happy to tell you more.