| Skeptic 2006-08-03, 2:51 am |
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> Another book is "Gambit Chess Openings" which is another 768 pages.
>
> Then, there is "Unorthodox Chess Openings". This one is only 538
> pages.
You're forgetting that Schiller's books, more often than not, are not
written from scratch, but are simply copied-and-pasted from other
sources with little, if any, original analysis.
A particularly egregious case of Schiller's working method can be seen
here:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/copying.html
Where Schiller, in effect, simply copied another book--including the
mistakes. This should not require too much time.
There are worse sins in this world than "writing crappy chess books",
to be sure, but the really sad thing about it is that someone as
energetic as Schiller could have surely written ten REALLY GOOD books
instead of 100+ bad ones.
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