A great way to remember him!
Colin Crouch: Two Books and Memory...
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He dies in April 2015.
How To Defend in Chess was the first book on Lasker (and I had a few) that allowed me to see a bit of genius and the "strange" playing of this formidable champion, as in the same book the approach to my other idol, Tigran Petrosian, it is still less genial. This book by Colin Crouch is a diamond in the middle of thousands and thousands of stones ranging burying the sucker, and needy market and chess book buyer.
Hastings 1895, The Centenary Book, written with Kean Haines, limited edition and so rare, it is one of the best tournament books that ever were written and proves that you can take a book of the past and without "computerize without making a new one”, make a historic “modern” tournament book . Great as few, this book. I have no shame in saying,: at the level of a Zurich 53 of Bronstein, or Karlsbad 1907 by Marco and Schlechter.
Other excellent books of Crouch (and even beautiful games of this IM) could mention here, but, that’s enough.
Colin Crouch died and chess became poorer. The good, great writing in chess has lost one of those who loved chess and above all showed respect for those who wrote, chess amateurs in the true sense of the word. I have Crouch book, the book of Hastings in 1895 in front of me, I take one of my best boards and sets, and will travel with Colin Crouch until 1895.