FIDE Book Awards 2025 

Dear Authors and Publishers, 

The FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) invites you to submit your nominations for the Yuri Averbakh/Isaac Boleslavsky Book Awards 2024.

Eligible are chess books published in 2024. Authors/Publishers may submit up to three books. 

The panel of judges will consist of three prominent chess personalities. 

The Boleslavsky Isaac FIDE Book Award was launched in 2009 for the best book and publications which instructional values are remarkable. 

In 2019 the Award name was changed to the Yuri Averbakh/Isaac Boleslavsky Award in respect of these two giants of chess literature.

Nomination Form must be sent by January 31, 2026.