| Sam Sloan 2006-08-03, 2:51 am |
| On 16 Jul 2006 16:18:13 -0700, "Taylor Kingston"
<tkingston@chittenden.com> wrote:
quote:
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>parrthenon@cs.com wrote:
>
> "Months of work"? With most Schiller books I've seen, a few days
>would suffice, and the activity involved would be better described as
>inaccurate copying rather than what is generally understood by the term
>"work." Leave us not exaggerate, Larry -- the fact that Schiller has
>suffered a stroke has not magically improved the quality of his books.
Taylor Kingston, who has never written a book and barely plays chess,
has the audacity to attack Eric Schiller even while he is in the
hospital in perilous physical condition.
The claim that Schiller writes his books in "a few days" is
ridiculous.
For example, "Standard Chess Openings" by Eric Schiller ISBN
1580420486 is 768 pages of dense MCO Style comumns. That book alone
would have taken ten years for me to write, if I had been willing to
undertake such a project.
Another book is "Gambit Chess Openings" which is another 768 pages.
Then, there is "Unorthodox Chess Openings". This one is only 538
pages.
Then there are about one hundred other books that Schiller has
written. He not only writes about chess. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics
and writes about computational linguistics and Cambodian Languages.
By the way, it is Taylor Kingston a/k/a Edward Winter who claimed that
Kasparov did not write Batsford Chess Openings but that Eric Schiller
did. That work alone was about 500 pages.
Is there not some inconsistancy in your claims?
How do you suppose that Dr. Schiller writes a 768 page book "in a few
days"?
Sam Sloan
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