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Kings, Commoners and Knaves Further Chess Explorations
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9781888690040
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1888690046
Label: Russell Enterprises
Manufacturer: Russell Enterprises
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 456
Publication Date: August 01, 2001
Publisher: Russell Enterprises
Studio: Russell Enterprises
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Editorial Review:
A cornucopia of games, positions, biographies, mysteries, howlers, reviews, quotations, etc., featuring a cast of hundreds from the chess world of today and yesteryear -- the champions and the under-achievers, the scholars and the bunglers, the saints and the sinners. Every page provides fascinating, little-known material from an author who is prepared to name names. Includes * Indexes of games, players, and openings * Engaging chess games * Fascinating anecdotes.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Seeking the Truth
Edward Winter again presents us with a collection of historical essays, book reviews, forgotten positions, biographical details, quotes, and photographs from his long-running "Chess Notes" column. Winter's goal, as he says elsewhere, is to find out new (or rediscovered) true information about chess history, and to point out false statements and tall tales that are copied from one lousy chess book to another as "history".
The book therefore contains--among much else--many interesting ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant, original, meticulous and hilarious
This book is incredibly good. Many chess writers recycle old (and often inaccurate) information from other books, but that is definitely not Winter's way. This book is remarkably accurate and is written in sparkling English. The research and editing are superb. The book contains hundreds of unknown games and positions, thousands of unknown or forgotten facts (many of them historical but also with plenty of topical comment) and all in all it is simply terrific. Winter doesn't pull his punches and can ... Read More
Rating:  - Good book troubled by editing errors
This book is best summarized as a series of short articles. Some of the articles are interesting and some are not.
Different aspects of chess are covered: miniatures, trivia, puzzles, theory etc. Most of the individual groupings are fun... and most are well written. However, some are not.
The worst parts of this book bore us with the history of misspellings of famous players names; their obituaries and such.
Some of the best parts (the puzzles and miniatures) are troubled by poor editing ... Read More
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