| Louis Blair 2006-08-03, 2:52 am |
| Sam Sloan (sloan@ishipress.com)
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wrote (Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:39:14 GMT):
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> ... For example, "Standard Chess Openings" by Eric Schiller
> ISBN 1580420486 is 768 pages of dense MCO Style comumns.
> ...
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Is that really a correct description?
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"you're not going to get anything but the
briefest of overviews from SCO on any
opening." - David Surratt (5-18-03)
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http://chessville.com/reviews/Stand...ss_Openings.htm
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In any event, I, of course, agree that Standard Chess Openings
took more than a few days to write, but Taylor Kingston did
not write about all of Eric Schiller's books. He referred to "most"
of the books that he had "seen". I imagine that TK was thinking
of books like One-move Checkmates or 100 Awesome Chess
Moves rather than SCO, GCO, and UCO.
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Really, however, I agree with Sam Sloan and others that this is
not the best time for a debate of this sort. Perhaps we can
agree that there is dispute about the amount of time required
to write Eric Schiller books and that the conflicting points have
been adequately made for now.
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I object to a number of the things that Eric Schiller has done
over the years, but I nevertheless feel moved to seek out and
buy one of his books. Any suggestions? (Only positive ones,
please.) I enjoyed looking at some of the stuff in Whiz Kids
teach Chess, a few years ago.
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