Great Book Title

My friend from a local coffee shop has thought of a great title for a chess book.

My 60 Miserable Games

I think that would be a great title for a book but I was

thinking maybe it could be titled

Our 60 Miserable Games

It would be a lot of work for 1 person to write a whole 60 game book so I think maybe 60 forum posters could each be an author and submit and annotate one game each.

And hopefully millions of Americans would buy the book.

great idea and hopefullu a lot of people would buy the book

both titles sound good

Chapter 1 by NM Dale

In 1992 at the largest chess tournament of the year in Toronto Ontario

I was learned by the famous IM Bryon Nickoloff from Canada.

I was only about 1900 at the time and was a weeeeee young lad.

This was my first attempt at a Queen`s Gambit Accepted.

The game was short but at least I had fun playing bughouse chess between rounds.

nice

best title

Any volunteers for chapter 2?

Only 59 chapters to go.

Didn`t anyone else have a miserable game?

Ouch!  On your eleventh move instead of three pieces guarding d5 you only have two as the knight obstructs the bishop.  Keeping that square in front of the isolated d-pawn is important! 

Are you gonna write a chapter 2 Sir GreatOogieBoogie?

Did you ever have a game when you didn`t feel like booggieing after it?

Here are a couple against a random expert at a casual:

I think the title might be the best part of the book.

I'm pretty sure these games are more miserable than any that would be in that book. To make it worse, they were very similar and took place in the same tourney! Definitely not my best moments.

Maybe it could be an opening trap/miniature game collection but just with the groovy title to get folks to buy the book.

Maybe a GM could write a chapter on how they lost in under 20 moves and write a story about how the coffee wasn`t very delicious.

Here is my game against a >2600 GM at some long games OTB tournament.

My 50 Forgettable Fiascoes.

Oh yeah 50 would be easier to write than 60 a bit.

Do you volunteer to write a chapter of My 50 forgettable fiascoes.

Although it may be tough to recall one.

In 1984, Kasparov was well on his way to this number.  With 4 losses in the first 9 games, 5 losses in 27 games and no wins until game 32, Kasparov pretty much had "My Thirty Dirty Defeats" down on paper.  Who knows what could have been if they had played games 49 and 50?

Maybe then Campomanes could have written "My 50 Forgettable Fiascoes."

Even forty games would maintain the alliteration.

I guess it would be easier to write a book called My Favourite Game.

Here's two of my worst tournament games from last year:

The first was against a 10 year old who I assumed I'd easily beat.

That tournament was my worst OTB tournament, but at least I ended with 2/4 :)

In another tournament I played an the Nimzo Indian, even though I'd never played it before.  To make it worse, I played way too fast.

Hmmm... I think I could top that book title with this: "All of My Miserable Chess Games" ... Surely I could fill up two to three hundred pages! 

Kinda like Schillers "Development of a chess master" book huh?