Gambit Publications is a major publisher of chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 books. The company's headquarters is in London. It has published more than 150 chess books.

The company was founded by three chess players. Grandmaster (GM) John Nunn

John Nunn

John Denis Martin Nunn is one of England's strongest chess players and once belonged to the world's top ten. He is also a three times world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician....

 is the chess director, GM Murray Chandler

Murray Chandler

Murray Graham Chandler is a New Zealand chess grandmaster who has played internationally for that nation and for England, after gaining citizenship there in the early 1980s...

 is the managing director, and FIDE Master Graham Burgess

Graham Burgess

Graham K. Burgess is an English FIDE Master of chess and a noted writer and trainer. He became a FIDE Master at the age of twenty. He attended Birkdale High School in Southport, Merseyside. In 1989 he graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in mathematics...

 is the editorial director.

Some of the major books published by Gambit are Mastering the Chess Openings (four volumes) by John Watson

John L. Watson

John Leonard Watson is a chess International Master and author.Watson was born in Milwaukee and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. He was educated at Brownell-Talbot, Harvard, and the University of California at San Diego, where he took his degree in engineering...

, Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy also by Watson, Fundamental Chess Endings by Karsten Müller

Karsten Müller

Dr. Karsten Müller was born November 23, 1970 in Hamburg, West Germany. He is a German chess Grandmaster. He earned the Grandmaster title in 1998 and a PhD in mathematics in 2002 at the University of Hamburg. He placed third in the 1996 German championship and second in the 1997 German...

 and Frank Lamprecht

Frank Lamprecht

Frank Lamprecht is a German chess International Master and chess trainer. He is an author of Fundamental Chess Endings and Secrets of Pawn Endings, both with Karsten Müller.-External links:...

, Understanding the Chess Openings by Sam Collins, and the new Chess Explained series by various authors.