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Archive for January 11th, 2007

The Futility of Books

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

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 [...]

And one more from Norwood…

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

“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?”