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> Chinese Chess for Beginners needs to be revised
>
> My book, Chinese Chess for Beginners, has sold out two printings. Six
> thousand copies were sold, not one remains in stock. It is offered for
> sale on the Internet as a used book with prices up to $45.
>
> Time to bring out a third edition. However, parts of the book are
> obsolete. In particular, the last six pages have to scrapped
> completely, because they advertise books which are either out of print
> or have been reprinted by different publishers.
>
> Therefore, I need to fill up those six pages with something new.
> However, I am out of touch with the world of Chinese chess. I last
> competed in the World Championship of Chinese Chess in 1995 but I
> played so miserably that they never invited me back again, so I have
> no new news to publish.
>
> I would like some help in filling up those six pages. If anybody can
> send me any of the following items it would be appreciated.
>
> 1. Names and addresses of Officials of the World Chinese Chess
> Federation.
>
> 2. The results of the latest competitions.
>
> 3. Any good games, especially by grandmasters
>
> 4. Any street puzzles of Chinese Chess (how to win big bucks by
> beating up the guys in the street).
>
> 5. I have discovered that the man I defeated twice in the championship
> tournament in Beijing in 1988, C.K. Lai, has written and published his
> own book on Chinese chess: Chinese Chess: An Introduction to the
> Openings by C. K. Lai, Ray Keene (Editor) Publisher: Impala (June
> 2005) ISBN 0954994329. Mr. C. K. Lai won the European Championship (on
> a fluke Swiss Gambit) and we would not want anybody to think he is
> better than me, so I would like to publish the two games where I beat
> him. If anybody has them, which is possible since all the games in the
> tournament in Beijing 1988 were published in the bulletins of that
> event, they would be appreciated. Also, I played one good game in
> Singapore 1995 where I drew the representative of Indonesia in the
> first round. If anybody has that game or any other tournament game I
> played it would be appreciated.
>
> Basically, if anybody has any suggestions on how I can fill up six
> pages that need to be replaced of my book "Chinese Chess for
> Beginners", it would be appreciated.
>
> Sam Sloan

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> My next book will be about 69 techniques.
> Sam Sloan
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