Both posts 69# and 73# are belong to the same gategory. The authors give a free sample of how to master your self watching calculations skills!! ( fantastic method 😃) and then they promote to buy a four hours DVD's to master tactics by WATCHING...
Can we safely assume that you do not know of an example of a promise that one will Learn to calculate like a GM within four hours watching a DvD?
Kindaspongey...Can we assume that you trolling?
Kindaspongey...Can we assume that you trolling?
No.
To be fair this is quite a good book, have made plenty of easy points playing the Colle zukatort and Barry attack.
Kindaspongey...Can we assume that you trolling?
No.
^He's a troll, having some fun here. It takes a troll to know one, trust me.
Or someone who just really doesn't want to get to his point, if he even has one.
Kindaspongey...Can we assume that you trolling?
No.
^He's a troll, having some fun here. It takes a troll to know one, trust me.
Or someone who just really doesn't want to get to his point, if he even has one.
Is he a troll or is he making money through generating clicks to these products. He is on nearly every thread with his list of books. If he is spamming for profit should he really be allowed to post?
Well he's trolling right now, not making any direct points but just beating around the bush with aimless questions.
And I have no clue why he always spams the same links to books over and over. Profit seems like a good reason.
To be fair this is quite a good book, have made plenty of easy points playing the Colle zukatort and Barry attack.
Can we safely assume that you do not know of an IM or GM video promising an easy route to chess mastery?
... I have no clue why he always spams the same links to books over and over. ...
"Thanks for all the help, I appreciate it, I'll definitely research these" - venafoz (~1 day ago)
... if misleading was my job I would stay low and not brag about it.
I am not doing a job here.
You are not here to play chess either...I am tempted to ask what exactly you do, except posting the " New in Chess " bibliography in every post that the OP ask less from what you give.
In what matters...I believe you don't understand how bad is for the average intermediate chess player to do not know how to study chess and suddenly have around him a serious amount of information that is impossible for him to handle and understand.
The way you react in all this...that is what show about. Either you do a job or not.
...I am tempted to ask what exactly you do, except posting the " New in Chess " bibliography in every post that the OP ask less from what you give. ...
I do not post the " New in Chess " bibliography.
To be fair this is quite a good book, have made plenty of easy points playing the Colle zukatort and Barry attack.
The point is not if it is a good book(I have it and in my opinion it's beyond mediocre with poor selected games and extremely poor analysis but some guys in our club love it) .The point is that the title is misleading.
There is no killer opening repertoire.For everything Summersacale suggests there are more than 1 good lines/systems for Black and most of them he doesn't even bother to mention.In many cases he cherrypicks low-quality games where white won to prove his point.
So he does assume that your opponent will play wrong and that will turn his average otherwise openings into killers.But any opening can turn to killer if your opponent plays it wrong.Don't get me wrong , I have nothing against Colle Zukertort or Barry attack.On the contrary , they are perfectly fine , but killers???Not even close.
Kasparov's book "Test of Time" is a great book.
If it's title was "The secrets of grandmasters from Garry Kasparov" it would still be a great book but with a greatly misleading title.
To be fair to Summerscale he uses those games where black goes wrong to show how the attacks should be conducted, lets face it at club level most of the opponents are going to go wrong at some stage and the book does a good job of showing how to take advantage.
imo it pitches just right for its intended audience. (players upto 2000)
As for the title, what is he supposed to call it?
... A guy bought MC0 recently trying to learn openings and of course the poor guy realised that he can't learn anything from MCO ' it's mostly a refference book. ...
Indeed, that is why I have posted these quotes from time to time:
"... For new players, I cannot recommend books that use [an encyclopedic] type of presentation [of opening theory], because the explanatory prose that elaborates typical plans and ideas is usually absent, thus leaving the student without any clear idea why certain moves are played or even preferred over other apparently equivalent moves. ..." - FM Carsten Hansen (2010)
"... [Modern Chess Openings (15th ed.)] pretends to be everything for everybody, but it isn’t; it pretends to be up-to-date and relevant in all chapters, but it isn’t; it should be a good book, but it isn’t. ..." - FM Carsten Hansen (2008)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140626165820/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen110.pdf
... Why on earth someone suggests books that he has never read and has no idea if they are actually good or bad ...
In many cases, I have read parts of books, and I certainly pay a lot of attention to reviews. In any case, I think it is of some value to notify people of the existence of a book on this or that subject and give pointers about where one can learn more about a book.
... He doesn't care if he is actually very harmful ...
What I do not care about is the opinion of jengaias as to whether or not something very harmful is taking place. I think that I have shown more concern for harm itself then most. From time to time, I have posted this quote:
"... Just because a book contains lots of information that you don’t know, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be extremely helpful in making you better at this point in your chess development. ..." - Dan Heisman (2001)
... I gave you already two examples with DVD's series that pro-advertised from a free sample video. ...
Can we safely assume that you do not know of an example of a promise that one will Learn to calculate like a GM within four hours watching a DvD?