STUPIDITY in Chess Books Publishing

Why is the publishing chess market so stupid?

Why are so many and so bad published chess books, written as fast food, without quality, authors, although GM uninterested in amateur chess but more in money in  bank account ?

I know today the life of GM is very hard, especially for those who are not EGM or SGM (Elite or Super) who cannot live with the tournaments and have to survive with chess training or writing books - but who said that many GM have capacity and class to teach? Who said that many have the writing skills and the ability to write about chess?

Some became authentic typewriters chess books, written at an impressive pace, and above all, they know everything:  Openings, Midlegamme or Endings. I do not mention names of those “knights of honor” to write mediocre books chess, but its fame and its sales comes from the fact that amateurs believe that your reading, often barren and full of commonplaces make  the steps to advance almost to a level of MI or MF, when the case is that even in its very deep study they reach the 2100 Elo and Stop!

It is the market, I know, but often the dishonesty of the writer is clearly visible. Do not cite the Bibliography here and there will be meeklysurreptitiously  taken from  other books,  when there lurks a complete ignorance of the classics, and literature of Chess. An example: The chapter devoted to the classics and game Janowsky-Capablanca  - Yermolinsky in  the book "The Road To Chess Improvement" is a shame, slap a lie through and through in which the author hides analysis of Fred Reinfeld, or V . Panov, when do not give the analysis like findings of himself! Incredible. And it took the laurels from the critics , and the the poor knowledge of chess literature of many chess amateurs!

As one idiotic kid here in a junior  tournament in Portugal said: Who is that guy (Capablanca) and why I have to study is games?: I never will paired with him ! Or as I heard to  a dumb Spanish IM “ In our days  an IM could winease  to Capablanca” !

Holly ignorance!

And Why this post?

As a chess literature lover I'm ashamed to say the least that these wonders of books are not translated into English!
Why? Why a book "Three Hundreds Chess Games" the great Sigbert only appeared in 1999 in Hays Publishing?
Why the publishing language Anglo-Saxon is so dumb  that he cannot realize that there are public to the wonders of books as I'll refer to here?

Siegbert Tarrasch, Leben und Werk , Wolfgang Kamm (Unterhaching, 2004)

Vabanque Dawid Janowsky 1868-1927, Daniel Ackermann

Emanuel Lasker: Denker Weltenbürger Schachweltmeister, Richard Forster, Stefan Hansen, Michael Negele

Boris Veinstein, Lasker, Filosofia della Lotta, Prisma Editori, Translation from Russian

 

 Jakov Neijstadt, Tarrasch potere della logica, Prisma Editori, Translation from Russian

sorry my English, but... My Homeland is the Portuguese Language, Pessoa dixit!

For a lot more bad chess book reviews check out Edward Winter's Chess Notes.           http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/worst.html

Be sure to read all (or at least some, in case your blood pressure reaches dangerous levels) of the nice (sic) things Mr Winter has to say about Raymond Keene and Eric Schiller. Apparently GM Keene has written some good stuff before he decided to concentrate on quantity over quality BUT he does have one unique distinction: He's the only GM I know of who closely resembles a BatMan Villain (The Penguin).

BTW Winter is a very accurate and respected chess biographer, historian and book reviewer.

NimzoRoy:

I've tried to read Schiller, but I haven't a book of Schiller- Eric! He is one of the worst writers ever in the History of Chess! If you attach a Pandolf ... anything, and Gufeld, will the three musketeers of mediocrity, the laxity, the use of a certain chess reader lazyness!
Love  Schiller, only... the Friedrich Von "Thou shouldst be one in truth, yet not with the whole thou shouldst be so. 'Tis through the thou'rt one reason - so art with it through the heart. Voice of the whole is thy reason , but thou thine own heart must ever be, If in thy heart evermore Dwells reason, thou art happy. "
Pandolf anything only ... Paolo Pandolfo and his Viola da Gamba and Bach!

Reinfeld, Chernev, Znosko Borovsky are miles away in quality, love and knowledge of chess (I know Gufeld was a GM - but it is worth mentioning the ethics of this man-Sosonko, in "The Reliable Past" attempts to hide without getting the poor Gufeld lack  of ethics and unsightly. Only His Mona Lisa save the honour.).

Keene, Well ... Winter is right, but he hates Keene and forgot two or three good books of the Men, really good books: Is book on Nimzowitsch "A Reappraisal", the Wonderful book that Keene is editor: "Learn From The Grandmasters", and .. . Yes, the "rich" book, very little known: "Becoming a Grandmaster" ( I'm not jokking!)
 The rest of Keene? Trash or  chess "Crap"

now a question:  as you seems to be understood in these things: Who is Edward Winter? Do you know? Who hides behind this man one of the most serious chess writers in the world of chess? I have my suspicions ... He his a GM and...an English one!

I think Winter has given credit where credit is due to Keene. I'm not sure if any credit is due to Schiller (the chess writer that is) AND I really don't think Winter "hates" Keene (personally) although he does hate sloppy, inaccurate and plagarized chess writings - and Keene certainly has no monopoly on any of these sins, and he's been accused of several other chess-related sins some of which are quite serious.

As for Winter's alleged "secret Identity" being naive I always assumed there is a real Edward Winter and it's not a nom de plume, but that's just my ASSumption. Are you serious or being facetious about him? Whoever the man is behind the myth, he's one of my favorite chess historians.

PS: Have you read "Aron Nimzovitch: A Reappraisal?" I've read My System, Chess Praxis and Blockade and I could read another book about my namesake (if I ever had the time)

If what he means is an IM today could easily beat Capablanca, he's probably right.

I loled when I read that article. It's hard to believe that a book like that was actually published.

ROFLMAO.Hilarious,I'm going to buy that book just so I can have a good laugh.

@ paulgottlieb There are a few outfits that print books "on demand" which sounds like a swell idea if you really have to have a book and don't mind buying a brand-new copy - assuming you can find anyone who prints what you're looking for "on demand"

If the book is OP and one can find a free download I'm not sure I'd consider downloading it to be unethical although I'm sure it is illegal (to give it away) for anything still copyrighted. Considering the retarded prices I've seen for some OP chess books I'm having a hard time getting too upset about downloading them for free - if you can find a free download and make sure the site you're downloading from is only giving away books and not malware too. 

Since I see the mention of some books translated into Italian from the Russian language, let me mention (one of) the true classics originally written in Italian: Esteban Canal's "Strategia di Avamposti" (1949), written by the Peruvian-Italian player (honored with the GM title just 2 or 3 years before his death at an old age).

This book isn't the theoretical built of some kind of "(My) System" writer (Nimzowich or Dorfman), and it isn't the study of the Chess style evolution thorugh the ages or in its latest developments (Kasparov's "Predecessors" or Watson's "Chess Strategies").

It is the account of a very personal view of Chess strategy (Avamposti=Outposts, are intended as the most advanced Pawn/s itself, rather than the squares protected by that Pawn), a series of very human analysi of own Chess games, written in a very original and fascinating style by a very peculiar player with an unique personal history.

For what I know, it was never translated despite the milestone reputation it has in the Italian Chess playing community.

I guess I was one of the very few who bought the English version of Tarrasch' 300 games. It is good to hear The name of Znosko-Borovsky mentioned. I remember a strong local master singing the praises of ZB's works

Many very good books are out of copyright and available for free in pdf format from Google and archive.net. These include books that you cannot buy such as Philidor's book. Also Capablanca's books are available, books by the Laskers and so forth.

Ha, good one.

Oh wait, you weren't being serious were you? Oh my...

Beating Capablanca today is very easy:

he flags every single game at move one.

What have you read by Chernev? I've read "Practical Chess Endings" and "The Greatest Games Ever Played" and like them both. 

 modern idea's in chess.must read.possibly master of the chessboard is good too from reviews

I personally think Masters of the Chessboard is the better of Reti's two works.

Since Capablanca's time chess theory has advanced to the extent where some of Capablanca's "brilliant moves" have been revealed as inaccuracies, which are easily recognizable by the modern day IM.

Sure, but not as many as you think and not OTB.

You can't honestly believe that any old regular IM would be able to beat one of the most accurate world champions just because of extensive retrospective analysis and opening theory, let alone easily?

 One of the funniest things I've ever read on here

Is "Modern Ideas" worth reading though?