| Gunsberg 2005-10-16, 11:31 pm |
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Joshua Houk wrote:
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> Anders Thulin <ath_no_spam_please@algonet.se> wrote in news:r7r4f.148443
> $dP1.506230@newsc.telia.net:
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> I haven't read it yet (it's in the mail), but I did spy a short
> but serious review by the Philadelphia City Paper here:
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> http://citypaper.net/articles/2005-10-06/cover9.shtml
I've only briefly looked through "Chess XXXXX", but the review
seems to be fairly accurate. What can you expect, given the title? It
does fill a lacuna that had existed in chess literature, I suppose.
Very anecdotal, very chatty. The material meanders a bit, and there is
some repetition. On the other hand, it is an easy read. One has to take
into account that Shehade is only 24 years old, and obviously lacks
experience in this type of ambitious writing endeavor. I think that the
book could have benefited by having more of a focus on Chess history,
and the role that women players had in it. A few seriously annotated
games would have been nice, rather than having the game scores simply
slapped into an appendix at the end of the book.
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