A Few Announcements - Smart Ebook Reader, Free Ebook, and the Next Puzzle Book

This newsletter include a few announcements that I’m excited about - hopefully, you will be too.

Smart eBook Reader

In the Tactics Ladder series, I write in the introduction that I recommend using Chessvision.ai to check your solutions. If you don’t know Chessvision.ai I can recommend that you check it out. It is a very effective and easy-to-use browser extension that you can use to make Lichess studies and transfer diagrams from eBooks or online environments.

Chessvision.ai also has a neat eBook reader that I would recommend you use if you have any pdf chess books. Maybe you are a paid subscriber and have access to 6 of my pdf-books ;-)

I have talked with Pawel, who runs Chessvision AI, and we have made a collaboration where users of Chessvision AI get a copy of my eBook with the 14 Capablanca games from ‘Chess Fundamentals. You can then easily read and open the diagrams from the eBook in the reader.

Just click on the button to check it out.

The Next Puzzle Book

Thanks to all who voted!

Vote For The Next Chess Book 📚

There is a clear winner, which I’m happy about because it is then easy to decide. My current idea is to split the book into two parts. Part one will have 25 annotated pawn endgame studies. Part two will have 25 annotated puzzles from top-level games.

Book cover inspiration from Midjourney

In my head I have a vision of a book cover with the title ‘Prescribed Pawn Endgames’ and the book cover is a vintage medicine label of some sort. We will see if it will stick. Here is a warm-up puzzle:

GM Ian Rogers (2535) - GM Alexei Shirov (2580)
Groningen, 1990
White to move and win

The Tactics Ladder Series is now on Kindle!

I have pulled myself together and converted the Green and Red book into a Kindle version. They are now available on Amazon. To celebrate it I’m running a quick giveaway on the Green Book for the 1000 FIDE-level.

/Martin