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Date: 20 Sep 2008 11:02:26
From: samsloan
Subject: My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 by Alekhine has just been reprinted
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Ishi Press is proud to announce the reprinting of My Best Games of
Chess 1908-1923 by Alexander Alekhine.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891315
This edition includes a new introduction by Jerry Hanken.
Although this book has been reprinted many times, this edition has
larger, clearer and easier to read fonts.
This is the book that every chess master and grandmaster has read and
studied and every aspiring chess master should be reading.
The author, a World Chess Champion, clearly explains the most complex
and difficult concepts.
Grandmaster Reuben Fine wrote that Alekhine's collection of best games
was one of the three most beautiful that he knew.
World Champion Garry Kasparov wrote, =93Alexander Alekhine is the first
luminary among the others who are still having the greatest influence
on me. I like his universality, his approach to the game, his chess
ideas. I am sure that the future belongs to Alekhine chess.=94
Bobby Fischer wrote, =93He had great imagination. He could see more
deeply into a situation than any other player in chess history. It was
in the most complicated positions that Alekhine found his grandest
concepts.=94
Chess Journalist Jerry Hanken writes, =93This book played a large part
in my ultimate development as a Chess Master. The study of this book
added nearly 400 points to my rating. The World Champion has more than
a mere game collection here. There are superb insights into all
aspects of the game. The Great Master uses a very practical set of
ways to start the game and he explains them lucidly.=94
ISBN 0-923891-49-8
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 13:30:07
From: Kenneth Sloan
Subject: Re: My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 by Alekhine has just been reprinted
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samsloan wrote:
> Ishi Press is proud to announce the reprinting of My Best Games of
> Chess 1908-1923 by Alexander Alekhine.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891315
>
> This edition includes a new introduction by Jerry Hanken.
Is there an update on "The Streak"?
--
Kenneth Sloan [email protected]
Computer and Information Sciences +1-205-932-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX +1-205-934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://KennethRSloan.com/
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 08:52:38
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)
Subject: Re: My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 by Alekhine has just been
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On Sep 21, 8:12 pm, "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)"
<[email protected] > wrote:
>
>
> Is Ishi ... in the descriptive notation
> (then type: " ... in the **descriptive**);
> or is it in algebraic (then type: in the
> **descriptive** ...)
To which Sam responded "in **descriptive**"
:-)
Wlod
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Date: 21 Sep 2008 20:32:53
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 by Alekhine has just been
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The problem is my mistake.
My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 by Alekhine is here:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891498
It is in descriptive, the language our promising young chess masters
are too stupid to learn how to read.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 10:15:23
From: Chess One
Subject: Re: My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 by Alekhine has just been reprinted
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"samsloan" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> The problem is my mistake.
>
> My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 by Alekhine is here:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891498
>
> It is in descriptive, the language our promising young chess masters
> are too stupid to learn how to read.
Sometimes easier to use descriptive notation, but not usually, and the
reader must continuously shift perspective from white's point of view, to
black's; White's King Bishop 4 being Black King Bishop 5, etc.
Algebraic, especially icon-algebraic, is readable by anybody using arabic
numbers - and more moves can be carried in the head without diagrams.
Publishers who do not follow this practice are (a) limiting their market,
(b) behaving counter-intuitively to what readers want, and (c) likely making
cheap facsimile editions, with as likely poor print and diagram quality.
They should seek the stupid within.
Why [other than that it is 'work'] not scan a descriptive notation book via
OCR, then replace descriptive with algebraic notation - and might as well
redo the diagrams too - even EPD2 is sufficient, and its free.
This, IMO, would provide a useful service to the chess public who are
condemned to struggle through bloody awful old descriptive game scores.
Seems to me there would be a ready market for this /value-added/ activity,
and I would buy such titles. If there were a few good ones, I could also
ensure the idea received a review or 3 - and to lots of people - in effect,
lots of free advertising for a welcome new publishing feature in chess. I
would imagine the differential sales amount to be about 10 : 1 if such
titles could be made algebraic over the likely sales volume for facsimile
editions.
But not taking in, and indeed, insulting the chess public, as here, is a
poor start to Sam Sloan's new career as chess publisher.
Instead of that, it seems to me a useful way to use this newsgroup for Sam
Sloan to actually survey which titles other posters here would like to see
in algebraic format - indeed, if short or long algebraic or icon-algebraic.
Phil Innes
> Sam Sloan
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Date: 21 Sep 2008 20:12:44
From: Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)
Subject: Re: My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 by Alekhine has just been
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On Sep 21, 7:25 am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Sep 21, 10:17 am, Taylor Kingston <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is it still in the old descriptive notation?
> When I was a little boy, I learned that
> one plus one equals two.
And now that you are an old fart
you are deaf or something:
Is Ishi Press reprint of Alechine's "My ..."
in the descriptive notation (then type:
"Ishi Press reprint of Alechine's 'My ...'
is in the descriptive notation"); or is it
in algebraic (then type: "Ishi Press reprint
of Alechine's 'My ...' is in the descriptive
notation").
Do you hear me??!!!! Do YOU HEAR ME ???!!!!!!!
Uph!,
Wlod
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Date: 21 Sep 2008 08:11:15
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 by Alekhine has just been
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On Sep 21, 10:25=A0am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Sep 21, 10:17=A0am, Taylor Kingston <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Sep 20, 2:02=A0pm, samsloan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Ishi Press is proud to announce the reprinting of My Best Games of
> > > Chess 1908-1923 by Alexander Alekhine.
>
> > >http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891315
>
> > =A0 This link does not lead to any Alekhine book, but to "Not Guilty
> > Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon
> > Trotsky in the Moscow Trials."
>
> > > This edition includes a new introduction by Jerry Hanken.
>
> > > Although this book has been reprinted many times, this edition has
> > > larger, clearer and easier to read fonts.
>
> > =A0 Is it still in the old descriptive notation? Unless it's been
> > translated to algebraic, your edition is not likely to appeal to
> > today's chess public.
>
> Yes. I know and it is truly terrible that today's young chess masters
> are too stupid to learn how to read algebraic chess notation.
They can't read algebraic either? One wonders then how they ever got
a master title.
> When I was a little boy, I learned that one plus one equals two.
>
> Now, our youth needs a hand-held calculator to figure that out.
>
> Sam Sloan- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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Date: 21 Sep 2008 07:25:51
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 by Alekhine has just been
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On Sep 21, 10:17=A0am, Taylor Kingston <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2:02=A0pm, samsloan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Ishi Press is proud to announce the reprinting of My Best Games of
> > Chess 1908-1923 by Alexander Alekhine.
>
> >http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891315
>
> =A0 This link does not lead to any Alekhine book, but to "Not Guilty
> Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon
> Trotsky in the Moscow Trials."
>
> > This edition includes a new introduction by Jerry Hanken.
>
> > Although this book has been reprinted many times, this edition has
> > larger, clearer and easier to read fonts.
>
> =A0 Is it still in the old descriptive notation? Unless it's been
> translated to algebraic, your edition is not likely to appeal to
> today's chess public.
Yes. I know and it is truly terrible that today's young chess masters
are too stupid to learn how to read algebraic chess notation.
When I was a little boy, I learned that one plus one equals two.
Now, our youth needs a hand-held calculator to figure that out.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 21 Sep 2008 07:17:24
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 by Alekhine has just been
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On Sep 20, 2:02=A0pm, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> Ishi Press is proud to announce the reprinting of My Best Games of
> Chess 1908-1923 by Alexander Alekhine.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891315
This link does not lead to any Alekhine book, but to "Not Guilty
Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon
Trotsky in the Moscow Trials."
> This edition includes a new introduction by Jerry Hanken.
>
> Although this book has been reprinted many times, this edition has
> larger, clearer and easier to read fonts.
Is it still in the old descriptive notation? Unless it's been
translated to algebraic, your edition is not likely to appeal to
today's chess public.
> This is the book that every chess master and grandmaster has read and
> studied and every aspiring chess master should be reading.
>
> The author, a World Chess Champion, clearly explains the most complex
> and difficult concepts.
>
> Grandmaster Reuben Fine wrote that Alekhine's collection of best games
> was one of the three most beautiful that he knew.
>
> World Champion Garry Kasparov wrote, =93Alexander Alekhine is the first
> luminary among the others who are still having the greatest influence
> on me. I like his universality, his approach to the game, his chess
> ideas. I am sure that the future belongs to Alekhine chess.=94
>
> Bobby Fischer wrote, =93He had great imagination. He could see more
> deeply into a situation than any other player in chess history. It was
> in the most complicated positions that Alekhine found his grandest
> concepts.=94
>
> Chess Journalist Jerry Hanken writes, =93This book played a large part
> in my ultimate development as a Chess Master. The study of this book
> added nearly 400 points to my rating. The World Champion has more than
> a mere game collection here. There are superb insights into all
> aspects of the game. The Great Master uses a very practical set of
> ways to start the game and he explains them lucidly.=94
>
> ISBN =A0 0-923891-49-8
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