And the winner is...

After two weeks of preliminary voting and another two weeks in the finals, we are pleased to announce that the 2007 ChessCafe.com Book of the Year is the outstanding Silman's Complete Endgame Course by Jeremy Silman.

The first cycle of voting was held January 30-February 13, with the final (short list) voting February 13-24. In the first round, any title appearing in 2007 could be nominated. In the end From London to Elista by Evgeny Bareev & Ilya Levitov, San Luis 2005 by Alik Gershon and Silman's Complete Endgame Course by Jeremy Silman emerged as the three second round finalists.

All three books had ardent supporters in the final round of voting. However, Silman's Complete Endgame Course outpaced the others to become the 2007 ChessCafe Book of the Year.