WELCOME TO HARDINGE SIMPOLE Chess may have the most extensive literature of any game, sport or pastime; part of our mandate is to rescue from oblivion any worthwhile publication by the pen of an acknowledged master of chess writing; and, to give an opportunity to talented writers who would otherwise have found it difficult to get into print, in Chess and in other disciplines. Hardinge Simpole has commercial aims, but we do not rely on the mass market for all our books. We are fully prepared to commit to what may be caviar to the general, so long as the product is indeed genuine. With our blend of the classic and the experimental Hardinge Simpole strives at all times to offer quality.

COMING SOON ... In Spring 2009 we shall be adding titles to the Cambridge Asia Series, and launching three new Series. Travellers In The Wider Levant will feature a variety of important accounts of life in the lands touching or affected by events in the Eastern Mediterranean over the last five hundred years. The 1857 Series reprints classic accounts of India in 1857. September 2008 saw the Hardinge Simpole reissue of the Harry Golombek masterpiece Reti's Best Games of Chess. For several decades Golombek was the chess correspondent for The Times. He was awarded the OBE for services to chess, the World Chess Federation made him Grandmaster Emeritus, he won the British Championship twice, and he is widely recognised as one of the great writers on chess,with his books on Capablanca and Reti being acknowledged leaders in the field.Richard Reti was a poet of the chessboard. Along with Aron Nimzowitsch he was the co-founder of the so-called Hypermodern School of chess, a way of playing which encouraged the opponent to occupy the centre with pawns, and then seek to destroy it with long range sniping from fianchettoed bishops developed on the edge of the board. Reti himself was the author of two books, Masters of the Chessboard and Modern Ideas in Chess. With Nimzowitsch's My System and Chess Praxis - all in print with Hardinge Simpole - these formed the holy writ of hypermodern creative thinking. Now Golombek's book of Reti's best games justly concludes a quintet of chess wisdom and philosophy which will delight any connoisseur of the game.

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