| Taylor Kingston 2006-08-03, 2:51 am |
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Sam Sloan wrote:
quote:
> Is not it an amazing coincidence that ALL of the negative reviews
> published by Taylor Kingston attack books not sold by Chess Cafe a/k/a
> USCF Sales a/k/a Hanon Russell ...
Ah, Sam, compared to the ease of refuting your arguments, shooting
fish in a barrel is hard work. A quick check of the USCF Sales catalog
shows many titles I have panned in whole or significant part. A few I
found in about 10 minutes' perusal:
The Greatest Tournaments in the History of Chess 1851-1986, edited
by Rainier Knaak and Manual Fruth
The Book of Chess Lists (2nd edition), by Andy Soltis
The Turk, Chess Automaton, by Gerald Levitt
The Batsford Book of Chess Records, by Yakov Damsky
Cura=E7ao 1962, by Jan Timman
Bogoljubow: The Fate of a Chess Player, by Sergei Soloviov
Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal, by Raymond Keene
My Great Predecessors, vol. 2, by Garry Kasparov
Emil Josef Diemer 1908-1990, by Alan Dommett
Paul Morphy: Genius and Myth, by Eichorn, M=FCller and Knaak
Bobby Fischer: The Wandering King, by Hans B=F6hm & Kees Jongkind
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> and that ALL of the positive reviews by
> Taylor Kingston extoll the virtues of books sold by Chess Cafe a/k/a
> USCF Sales a/k/a Hanon Russell, especially those published by Russell
> Enterprises?
Gee, Sam, did it ever occur to you that USCF Sales might just want to
carry books that get good reviews?
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> Is not it another amazing coincidence that Taylor Kingston attacks in
> print almost everything written by Raymond Keene, Eric Schiller and
> Larry Evans, who are the same authors who are also attacked in print
> by Edward Winter?
Here we go shooting fish in a barrel again. I have never reviewed any
book by Evans. I have reviewed only two books by Keene. If memory
serves, I have reviewed only two books by Schiller. I would estimate
that between them, these three authors have written at least 100 books.
How Sam goes from 4 out of 100+ to "almost everything" is his own
peculiar brand of logic.
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> Do you mean to tell us that you are performing all these hatchet jobs
> for free?
Whether it's a hatchet job, a panegyric, or a lukewarm ho-hum, all I
get is the book.
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