| Ray Gordon 2006-08-03, 2:51 am |
| >> "Months of work"? With most Schiller books I've seen, a few days
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> Taylor Kingston, who has never written a book
I have
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>and barely plays chess,
I do.
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> has the audacity to attack Eric Schiller even while he is in the
> hospital in perilous physical condition.
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> The claim that Schiller writes his books in "a few days" is
> ridiculous.
I'll say only that he's rather prolific.
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> 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.
Actually it would take about a year for someone good enough.
I'm doing a book like that.
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> Another book is "Gambit Chess Openings" which is another 768 pages.
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> Then, there is "Unorthodox Chess Openings". This one is only 538
> pages.
My copy of UCO was a paper-thin book that couldn't have been more than 120.
Maybe he expanded it.
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> Then there are about one hundred other books that Schiller has
> written.
So if each book took a year, is he now 126 years old?
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>He not only writes about chess. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics
> and writes about computational linguistics and Cambodian Languages.
Do the math on how long it takes to produce the chess books.
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