WELCOME TO HARDINGE SIMPOLE Chess may have the most extensive literature of any game, sport or pastime, and each week new treatises on the openings pour out of databases, like an unstemmable flood from the hand of some demented sorcerer’s apprentice, submerging works of lasting value. 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 ... Late last year we published Botvinnik's Secret Games by Jan Timman, Philip H.L. Hughes' new look at the inaccessible Die Blockade of Aron Nimzowitsch, and Ray Keene and Eric Schiller on Kasparov's Sicilian Strategies.The delayed International Chess Congress 1922 On December 5th we published Sydney Bolt's memoir of India in the Second World War, Pseudo Sahib as the first volume in our Cambridge Asian Series.

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