No, I don’t mean all books, or even all chess books. Just the majority of them. You know the ones I mean. Khalifman’s leventy-seven volume set on the opening for turquiose according to Rex Reed. The umpty-leven page tome on the latest variation on move 23 of the Ruy.
Seems like everyone writes chess books for [...]

“I’m always staggered when I see a 300 page book containing an in-depth analysis of some sub-variation of the Sicilian Defence - who actually reads all that?”

“You also have to be honest with yourself. Be ready to accept that much of what you are doing is wrong; that is the only way to get it right. The best thing that ever happened to my chess was when I went to the Soviet Union in 1986. I was crushed game after game. [...]

goes to the person who wrote a detailed post in italian hoping to sell real estate in Indiana.

“…certain people do improve their chess. In the main though these people are smaller than grown-ups. Children seem to have no problem improving their chess and I do not believe that this is due to a greater capacity for hard work. The key is that adults become stubborn. They refuse to keep their minds open [...]