New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

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Date: 24 Jun 2007 04:48:17
From: samsloan
Subject: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

Sam Sloan has just brought out a new chess book today!!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891870

Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies by Ghenrikh M. Kasparyan

This book will certainly displace the Polgar book: Chess: 5334
Problems, Combinations and Games

As you can see, the Sam Sloan book has 211 more problems !!!

Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies was originally published in the
Soviet Union. It is a collection of endgames, mostly composed by a
wide variety of Soviet composers, based on a common theme, that a
normally weaker piece is able to trap a stronger piece.

I learned about this book at the US Championship in Stillwater,
Oklahoma, where I saw one of the top players studying it, so I
undertook to reprint it.

Ghenrikh M. Kasparyan (1910-1995) is considered to have been without
doubt the greatest composer and analyst of chess endgame studies ever.
He was so great that when a great new chess star named Kasparyan
appeared on the scene, the Soviet authorities decided to change the
name of the second Kasparyan to Kasparov to avoid confusion.

In this book, his master work, Kasparyan first classifies endgame
studies into the analytic as opposed to artistic. Analytic studies are
those likely to arise in an actual game. Artistic are composed
positions where some spectacular or unusual event occurs.

Kasparyan then divides endgames into those where the win is achieved
by promoting a pawn or checkmating the enemy king as opposed where
white wins by trapping or dominating the enemy pieces. There are an
amazing number or these dominating themes, including those by Kling,
Horwitz, Berger, Troitzky, Rinck, the Platov brothers (Mikhail and
Vladimir), Kubbel and so on.

Sam Sloan

Date: 26 Jun 2007 09:14:25
From: captain.
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

is the paper thin and will shit stick to it? will it come in a roll? that
would be real nice. oh, and please use ink that is not toxic to human skin.

it will sell millions of "copies".

Date: 26 Jun 2007 01:53:49
From: The Historian
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 25, 5:41 pm, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Jun 25, 5:53 pm, SBD <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This would clearly include a publisher who has contracted for a work,
> > or?
>
> In general the copyright belongs to the author except in the case of a
> work "for hire".
>
> However, copyright law is very complex and not settled. There are
> court cases going on about this all the time and new judicial
> decisions.
>
> In the case of the Whitaker book, there is no publisher listed at all.
> It says that it is printed in Heidelberg Germany Juli 1960 but no name
> or address for a printer or publisher.
>
> There are other odd things about the book. The book is over 300 pages
> but it has no page numbers. The words on the spine are printed upside
> down from the way they should be. There is no copyright notice at all
> in the book. It does not even say copyright by Whitaker and Hartleb.
>
> Yet, the book seems to be a high quality production by a real
> publisher.
>
> I am wondering who paid for the book. The big picture of E. Forry
> Laucks on the third page suggests that Laucks may have paid for it.
>
> I have never seen the book on sale anywhere. I wonder how many copies
> were printed and what happened to them.
>
> Altogether, it is a mysterious book.

Hmm, the inversion of the text on the spine suggests an Eastern
European publisher. As an example, Moravian, out of the Czech
Republic, prints the spines that way.

Date: 25 Jun 2007 16:26:30
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 25, 12:31 pm, J=FCrgen R. <[email protected] > wrote:
> [...]
>
>
>
> >I am not worried.
>
> OK. Here is the email to Mr. Goichberg:
>
> Dear Mr. Goichberg,
>
> Sam Sloan is selling pirated Chess Books through Amazon and 'Ishi
> Press'. Here is the Amazon link:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Domination-2-545-Endgame-Studies/dp/0923891870/...
>
> The Kasparyan book in question is certainly not in the public domain
> and neither Sloan nor Ishi Press hold the copyright, and Sloan knows
> this.
>
> I think the USCF definitely has the obligation to respond to this kind
> of fraud being perpetrated by one of its officials.
>
> Sloan is bragging about this theft on rec.games.chess.politics and
> probably 27 other newsgroups. See thread "New Sam Sloan Chess Book out
> Today" on June 24, 2007.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> J=FCrgen Rennenkampff

I am not worried but I wonder what is your motivation for writing
letters like this.

No doubt you are aware that in your beloved Communist Workers Paradise
there was no private property. Thus, if a copyright existed, it
belonged to the Soviet state.

However, here in our freedom loving Bush-USA state, the government
holds no copyrights. Everything printed by the Superintendent of
Documents is public domain and even you can re-print it over there in
your former Communist Dictatorship.

I realize that with the Soviet Union only a few hundred miles away and
threatening to invade at any moment, you were much more respectful of
any copyright claims they might make. After all, they might invade
just to get their books back.

By why are you writing letters to Amazon and to the United States
Chess Federation when you have no claim on the book? How do you think
that stopping the re-printing of a long out-of-print chess book would
benefit the world chess community of which you claim to be a part?

Sam Sloan

Date: 26 Jun 2007 08:13:48
From: J�rgen R.
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:26:30 -0700, samsloan <[email protected] >
wrote:

>On Jun 25, 12:31 pm, J�rgen R. <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>
>>
>> >I am not worried.
>>
>> OK. Here is the email to Mr. Goichberg:
>>
>> Dear Mr. Goichberg,
>>
>> Sam Sloan is selling pirated Chess Books through Amazon and 'Ishi
>> Press'. Here is the Amazon link:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Domination-2-545-Endgame-Studies/dp/0923891870/...
>>
>> The Kasparyan book in question is certainly not in the public domain
>> and neither Sloan nor Ishi Press hold the copyright, and Sloan knows
>> this.
>>
>> I think the USCF definitely has the obligation to respond to this kind
>> of fraud being perpetrated by one of its officials.
>>
>> Sloan is bragging about this theft on rec.games.chess.politics and
>> probably 27 other newsgroups. See thread "New Sam Sloan Chess Book out
>> Today" on June 24, 2007.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> J�rgen Rennenkampff
>
>I am not worried but I wonder what is your motivation for writing
>letters like this.

The idea is to stop a thief. You are a thief and seem to think theft
is justifiable, provided nobody is watching.

>
>No doubt you are aware that in your beloved Communist Workers Paradise
>there was no private property.

This is nonsense, like most of your claims.

> Thus, if a copyright existed, it
>belonged to the Soviet state.

Also nonsense. Not only did the author own the copyright but his heirs
could inherit it. This was true after all 3 major revisions of the
basic law.

>
>However, here in our freedom loving Bush-USA state, the government
>holds no copyrights. Everything printed by the Superintendent of
>Documents is public domain and even you can re-print it over there in
>your former Communist Dictatorship.

Bull, as usual. Try to reprint some USGS or NOAA maps sometime and
'publish' them via FISHI Press and Amazon.

>
>I realize that with the Soviet Union only a few hundred miles away and
>threatening to invade at any moment, you were much more respectful of
>any copyright claims they might make. After all, they might invade
>just to get their books back.

The Soviet Union was a great deal more peaceful and much less likely
to bomb and invade than the USA.

>
>By why are you writing letters to Amazon and to the United States
>Chess Federation when you have no claim on the book?

Because theft prevention is a public concern, not simply a private
matter. I object to your theft, even when you aren't stealing from me
at the moment.

> How do you think
>that stopping the re-printing of a long out-of-print chess book would
>benefit the world chess community of which you claim to be a part?

I made no such claim - why do you keep making up stuff?
There are good reasons for copyright protection, but I am not going to
waste my time explaining them to you. Copyright does not lapse because
a book is out of print, nor does it end when the holder dies.

>
>Sam Sloan

Date: 25 Jun 2007 23:04:07
From: SBD
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 25, 5:41 pm, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:

> Altogether, it is a mysterious book.

Given the authors, it is to be expected. isn't it?

Date: 25 Jun 2007 15:41:38
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 25, 5:53 pm, SBD <[email protected] > wrote:

> This would clearly include a publisher who has contracted for a work,
> or?

In general the copyright belongs to the author except in the case of a
work "for hire".

However, copyright law is very complex and not settled. There are
court cases going on about this all the time and new judicial
decisions.

In the case of the Whitaker book, there is no publisher listed at all.
It says that it is printed in Heidelberg Germany Juli 1960 but no name
or address for a printer or publisher.

There are other odd things about the book. The book is over 300 pages
but it has no page numbers. The words on the spine are printed upside
down from the way they should be. There is no copyright notice at all
in the book. It does not even say copyright by Whitaker and Hartleb.

Yet, the book seems to be a high quality production by a real
publisher.

I am wondering who paid for the book. The big picture of E. Forry
Laucks on the third page suggests that Laucks may have paid for it.

I have never seen the book on sale anywhere. I wonder how many copies
were printed and what happened to them.

Altogether, it is a mysterious book.

Sam Sloan

Date: 26 Jun 2007 15:14:28
From: J�rgen R.
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:41:38 -0700, samsloan <[email protected] >
wrote:

>On Jun 25, 5:53 pm, SBD <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This would clearly include a publisher who has contracted for a work,
>> or?
>
>In general the copyright belongs to the author except in the case of a
>work "for hire".
>
>However, copyright law is very complex and not settled. There are
>court cases going on about this all the time and new judicial
>decisions.
>
>In the case of the Whitaker book, there is no publisher listed at all.
>It says that it is printed in Heidelberg Germany Juli 1960 but no name
>or address for a printer or publisher.
>
>There are other odd things about the book. The book is over 300 pages
>but it has no page numbers. The words on the spine are printed upside
>down from the way they should be.

If you would read a book occasionally you wouldn't need to make up so
much nonsense and you might have noticed that, while most English and
American books have text on the spine running from top to bottom, by
no means all of them do. I can see on my shelf titles running the
other way in German, French, Russian and English.

> There is no copyright notice at all
>in the book.

No copyright notice is necessary - the book is still protected.
Incidentally, this was also true in the USSR.

> It does not even say copyright by Whitaker and Hartleb.
>
>Yet, the book seems to be a high quality production by a real
>publisher.
>
>I am wondering who paid for the book. The big picture of E. Forry
>Laucks on the third page suggests that Laucks may have paid for it.
>
>I have never seen the book on sale anywhere. I wonder how many copies
>were printed and what happened to them.
>
>Altogether, it is a mysterious book.

Not at all - just a typical product of the Vanity Press. No real
publisher would touch it, so it fits well into the list at FISHI
Press.

>
>Sam Sloan

Date: 26 Jun 2007 14:01:56
From: Chess One
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

"J�rgen R." <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> No copyright notice is necessary - the book is still protected.
> Incidentally, this was also true in the USSR.

I just wrote to Murad Amannazarov, Director of Russian Chess House for any
clarification he might have, J�rgen, and will write his response here.

Phil Innes

>> It does not even say copyright by Whitaker and Hartleb.
>>
>>Yet, the book seems to be a high quality production by a real
>>publisher.
>>
>>I am wondering who paid for the book. The big picture of E. Forry
>>Laucks on the third page suggests that Laucks may have paid for it.
>>
>>I have never seen the book on sale anywhere. I wonder how many copies
>>were printed and what happened to them.
>>
>>Altogether, it is a mysterious book.
>
> Not at all - just a typical product of the Vanity Press. No real
> publisher would touch it, so it fits well into the list at FISHI
> Press.
>
>>
>>Sam Sloan

Date: 27 Jun 2007 19:32:50
From: Chess One
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

Murad sent his list, and this title does not seem to appear on it. Phil
Innes

"Chess One" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:o%8gi.7892$oo5.1744@trndny09...
>
> "J�rgen R." <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>> No copyright notice is necessary - the book is still protected.
>> Incidentally, this was also true in the USSR.
>
> I just wrote to Murad Amannazarov, Director of Russian Chess House for any
> clarification he might have, J�rgen, and will write his response here.
>
> Phil Innes
>
>>> It does not even say copyright by Whitaker and Hartleb.
>>>
>>>Yet, the book seems to be a high quality production by a real
>>>publisher.
>>>
>>>I am wondering who paid for the book. The big picture of E. Forry
>>>Laucks on the third page suggests that Laucks may have paid for it.
>>>
>>>I have never seen the book on sale anywhere. I wonder how many copies
>>>were printed and what happened to them.
>>>
>>>Altogether, it is a mysterious book.
>>
>> Not at all - just a typical product of the Vanity Press. No real
>> publisher would touch it, so it fits well into the list at FISHI
>> Press.
>>
>>>
>>>Sam Sloan
>
>

Date: 25 Jun 2007 22:04:23
From: SBD
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 25, 4:55 pm, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:

> That is correct. In general, publishers do not have a copyright. Only
> authors have a copyright.

I think though you are neglecting many works in which copyright is
assigned to the publisher by contract. Every technical book I did was
under such an agreement, and was most common until recently - at least
in technical areas.

I also found some books where the book was copyrighted by the
publisher, with an additional copyright listed for "Text" for the
author.

>
> Usually, if your publisher lets your book out of print for six months,
> you have a right to go to another publisher and have your book
> reprinted.

If you hold the copyright, why do you have to wait?

It seems more complex than you describe it....

Date: 25 Jun 2007 14:55:20
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 25, 5:49 pm, SBD <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Jun 25, 3:12 pm, samsloan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Rudi Schmaus seems to be the name of a bookstore owner. His name is
> > not mentioned in the book. Bookstore owners, printers, publishers and
> > the like do not have copyrights. Authors have copyrights. I will call
> > up Whitaker and see if he thinks that somebody named Rudi Schmaus owns
> > the rights to his book.
>
> Hmm that's what I found when I did the research. Rudi Schmaus
> Schachverlag put out a lot of books as publisher.
>
> Publishers don't have copyright? That is a new one to me.. if you're
> correct I do need to brush up on the law... I just spent a year
> getting the copyright back from a publisher on a book of mine, and you
> are seeming to say the whole thing was unnecessary?
>
>
>
> > Meanwhile, i suggest that you, Ralf and Jurgen brush up on your
> > copyright law. You can start by reading http://www.copyright.gov
>
> > Sam Sloan

That is correct. In general, publishers do not have a copyright. Only
authors have a copyright.

Usually, if your publisher lets your book out of print for six months,
you have a right to go to another publisher and have your book
reprinted.

Sam Sloan

Date: 25 Jun 2007 21:53:16
From: SBD
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 25, 3:12 pm, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:

Well, I did and found that the following persons besides the author
can apply for copyright:

#

The copyright claimant. The copyright claimant is defined in Copyright
Office regulations as either the author of the work or a person or
organization that has obtained ownership of all the rights under the
copyright initially belonging to the author. This category includes a
person or organization who has obtained by contract the right to claim
legal title to the copyright in an application for copyright
registration.
#

The owner of exclusive right(s). Under the law, any of the exclusive
rights that make up a copyright and any subdivision of them can be
transferred and owned separately, even though the transfer may be
limited in time or place of effect. Theterm "copyright owner" with
respect to any one of the exclusive rights contained in a copyright
refers to the owner of that particular right. Any owner of an
exclusive right may apply for registration of a claim in the work.
#

The duly authorized agent of such author, other copyright claimant, or
owner of exclusive right(s). Any person authorized to act on behalf of
the author, other copyright claimant, or owner of exclusive rights may
apply for registration.

This would clearly include a publisher who has contracted for a work,
or?

Date: 25 Jun 2007 21:49:17
From: SBD
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 25, 3:12 pm, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:

> Rudi Schmaus seems to be the name of a bookstore owner. His name is
> not mentioned in the book. Bookstore owners, printers, publishers and
> the like do not have copyrights. Authors have copyrights. I will call
> up Whitaker and see if he thinks that somebody named Rudi Schmaus owns
> the rights to his book.

Hmm that's what I found when I did the research. Rudi Schmaus
Schachverlag put out a lot of books as publisher.

Publishers don't have copyright? That is a new one to me.. if you're
correct I do need to brush up on the law... I just spent a year
getting the copyright back from a publisher on a book of mine, and you
are seeming to say the whole thing was unnecessary?

>
> Meanwhile, i suggest that you, Ralf and Jurgen brush up on your
> copyright law. You can start by readinghttp://www.copyright.gov
>
> Sam Sloan

Date: 25 Jun 2007 13:12:15
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 25, 3:21 pm, SBD <[email protected] > wrote:
> Are you also fully protected with the Whitaker book? I doubt if Rudi
> Schmaus is still around, but I am sure his heirs would be
> interested..... I assume you contacted them about the copyright on
> that book?

Who is Rudi Schmaus and why do you feel that he has a copyright claim
on the book?

Rudi Schmaus seems to be the name of a bookstore owner. His name is
not mentioned in the book. Bookstore owners, printers, publishers and
the like do not have copyrights. Authors have copyrights. I will call
up Whitaker and see if he thinks that somebody named Rudi Schmaus owns
the rights to his book.

Meanwhile, i suggest that you, Ralf and Jurgen brush up on your
copyright law. You can start by reading http://www.copyright.gov

Sam Sloan

Date: 25 Jun 2007 19:21:20
From: SBD
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

Are you also fully protected with the Whitaker book? I doubt if Rudi
Schmaus is still around, but I am sure his heirs would be
interested..... I assume you contacted them about the copyright on
that book?

Date: 25 Jun 2007 10:56:15
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

Date: 25 Jun 2007 03:30:01
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 25, 4:07 am, J=FCrgen R. <[email protected] > wrote:

> Sloan, there is simply no point discussing anything with you because
> you are too ignorant and you make up things whenever it suits you.
>
> You have evidently stolen the copyright for this book and you don't
> seem to care who the owner is. Probably the Russian original was
> published by 'Fiskultura i Sport', the State publishing house that
> published most (maybe all) chess books in the SU. It should be a
> simple matter to find out who the legal successor of this publisher
> is.
>
> The translation has a separate copyright attached to it, which you are
> also stealing.
>
> I think I will send an email to Amazon alerting them to the fact that
> 'Ishi Press' is a fraud that sells - if indeed it does find customers
> - pirated books.

I am not worried. The law is very well established that the US does
not honor Soviet copyrights for the simple reason that they did not
honor ours.

Also, the date extends from the date of the original work. The date of
the translation is irrelevant. You can read up all about that on the
official US Government website at
http://www.copyright.gov/

This is not to mention the fact that all of the authors are dead.

Meanwhile, I am looking for other books published in the Soviet Union
that would be worth reprinting here. Suggestions are welcome.

Sam Sloan

Date: 25 Jun 2007 18:31:46
From: J�rgen R.
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

[...]
>
>I am not worried.

OK. Here is the email to Mr. Goichberg:

Dear Mr. Goichberg,

Sam Sloan is selling pirated Chess Books through Amazon and 'Ishi
Press'. Here is the Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/Domination-2-545-Endgame-Studies/dp/0923891870/ref=sr_1_6/102-9173139-1465720?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182785798&sr=8-6

The Kasparyan book in question is certainly not in the public domain
and neither Sloan nor Ishi Press hold the copyright, and Sloan knows
this.

I think the USCF definitely has the obligation to respond to this kind
of fraud being perpetrated by one of its officials.

Sloan is bragging about this theft on rec.games.chess.politics and
probably 27 other newsgroups. See thread "New Sam Sloan Chess Book out
Today" on June 24, 2007.

Best Regards,

J�rgen Rennenkampff

Date: 25 Jun 2007 18:16:57
From: J�rgen R.
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:30:01 -0700, samsloan <[email protected] >
wrote:

>On Jun 25, 4:07 am, J�rgen R. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sloan, there is simply no point discussing anything with you because
>> you are too ignorant and you make up things whenever it suits you.
>>
>> You have evidently stolen the copyright for this book and you don't
>> seem to care who the owner is. Probably the Russian original was
>> published by 'Fiskultura i Sport', the State publishing house that
>> published most (maybe all) chess books in the SU. It should be a
>> simple matter to find out who the legal successor of this publisher
>> is.
>>
>> The translation has a separate copyright attached to it, which you are
>> also stealing.
>>
>> I think I will send an email to Amazon alerting them to the fact that
>> 'Ishi Press' is a fraud that sells - if indeed it does find customers
>> - pirated books.
>
>I am not worried.

Amazon explicitly forbids selling unauthorized copies of books. I have
sent an email to their abuse department. Let's see what they do.

I am also sending an email to Goichberg. Let's see what he does.

> The law is very well established that the US does
>not honor Soviet copyrights for the simple reason that they did not
>honor ours.
>
>Also, the date extends from the date of the original work. The date of
>the translation is irrelevant. You can read up all about that on the
>official US Government website at
>http://www.copyright.gov/
>
>This is not to mention the fact that all of the authors are dead.
>
>Meanwhile, I am looking for other books published in the Soviet Union
>that would be worth reprinting here. Suggestions are welcome.
>
>Sam Sloan

Date: 25 Jun 2007 14:57:14
From: J�rgen R.
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:30:01 -0700, samsloan <[email protected] >
wrote:

>On Jun 25, 4:07 am, J�rgen R. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sloan, there is simply no point discussing anything with you because
>> you are too ignorant and you make up things whenever it suits you.
>>
>> You have evidently stolen the copyright for this book and you don't
>> seem to care who the owner is. Probably the Russian original was
>> published by 'Fiskultura i Sport', the State publishing house that
>> published most (maybe all) chess books in the SU. It should be a
>> simple matter to find out who the legal successor of this publisher
>> is.
>>
>> The translation has a separate copyright attached to it, which you are
>> also stealing.
>>
>> I think I will send an email to Amazon alerting them to the fact that
>> 'Ishi Press' is a fraud that sells - if indeed it does find customers
>> - pirated books.
>
>I am not worried. The law is very well established that the US does
>not honor Soviet copyrights for the simple reason that they did not
>honor ours.

Do you think that repeating this nonsense will ultimately make it
true?
>
>Also, the date extends from the date of the original work. The date of
>the translation is irrelevant. You can read up all about that on the
>official US Government website at
>http://www.copyright.gov/

I'm not going to explain the law to you - read it yourself.

>
>This is not to mention the fact that all of the authors are dead.

This does not mean the copyright has expired, it may mean that it
expires after 70 years.

>
>Meanwhile, I am looking for other books published in the Soviet Union
>that would be worth reprinting here. Suggestions are welcome.
>
>Sam Sloan

Two things are certain: The Kasparyan book is not in the public domain
and neither you nor 'Ishi Press' is the copyright holder. Consequently
you are a thief.

Incidentally, what action do you think the USCF should take when it
discovers that one of its employees or officials sells pirated chess
books?

Date: 24 Jun 2007 17:37:52
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 24, 7:50 pm, J=FCrgen R. <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:33:16 -0700, Richard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >On Jun 24, 11:51 am, samsloan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> This book was originally published as a hard cover book in the Soviet
> >> Union, Is that the book you bought for $5 ? I am very surprised that
> >> you got such a good deal.
>
> >> Sam Sloan
>
> >If it was only published in the Soviet Union, why is it in English?
>
> The Soviets did a lot of English translations, usually published by
> Mir.
> It isn't very likely that Sloan bothered about copyright, so in the
> unlikely event that he gets elected the board will soon have reason to
> throw him out. It should be a simple matter to get the bylaws changed,
> if necessary, to keep felons off the board.

It is very well known that the Soviets never signed the International
Copyright convention and pirated many books published in the west.

Sam Sloan

Date: 27 Jun 2007 12:11:41
From: help bot
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 26, 3:33 pm, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:

> > And how, may I ask, do you know the book has over
> > 300 pages if there are no page numbers? Don't tell me
> > you actually counted them, one by one... .
>
> Well, in fact I did.
>
> The original Whitaker book had exactly 318 pages. I had to know that
> in order to reproduce the book.
>
> However, the Sam Sloan reprint has 336 pages. In order to accomplish
> this I deleted the blank pages in the Whitaker book and then I added
> pictures of Whitaker, pictures of Hartleb, pictures of Sam Sloan with
> Whitaker, a brief biography of Whitaker, a biography of Hartleb and
> four games played by Hartleb, a biography of Laucks, a description of
> Whitaker's criminal career including what he astually did in
> connection with the Lindbergh kidnapping, tributes to Whitaker and
> Hartleb written by various chess personalities and other biographical
> material.
>
> It is a rather complete book.
>
> Sam Sloan

Wow. Maybe you should consider writing some books of
your own, instead of all these republishing projects. On
chess, I mean.

However, you might want to consider that relatively few
people will be interested enough in players like Mr.
Whitaker to buy a book. What will sell is, of course, books
on stupid openings and titles like, say, How to Beat Bobby
Fischer, How to Draw Bobby Fischer, How Bobby Fischer
"Just Got Good", Where is Bobby Fischer Now?, and
my favorite, Whatever Happened to Bobby Fischer?

I must say I rather enjoyed your long-winded discussion
of genetics and the slave children of TJ (except when you
attempted to explain how black-haired women starved to
death because, for some unknown reason, cave men
decided they could only have *one* woman each and as we
know, gentlemen prefer blonds, or sometimes, redheads.
Obviously, the dark-haired women would *not* be left to
starve since any REAL cave MAN would knock her on
the head with his club and drag her into his cave, right
beside his blond and his redheaded female companions.
Sheesh! Grrrr. Uhgh. And back then, the women were
not helpless, feeble creatures who would simply starve
if a *man* did not hunt them some food. That's just silly.
Have you ever watched lions hunt? The females have no
problem except when a large water buffalo won't go down;
then a HUNGRY male lion will step in because after all,
he hasn't got all day, and he has bigger teeth, and it's a
matter of "pride".)

-- help bot

Date: 26 Jun 2007 12:33:14
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 26, 12:55 pm, help bot <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Jun 26, 9:14 am, J=FCrgen R. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >There are other odd things about the book. The book is over 300 pages
> > >but it has no page numbers. The words on the spine are printed upside
> > >down from the way they should be.
>
> > If you would read a book occasionally you wouldn't need to make up so
> > much nonsense and you might have noticed that, while most English and
> > American books have text on the spine running from top to bottom, by
> > no means all of them do. I can see on my shelf titles running the
> > other way in German, French, Russian and English.
>
> Have you tried turning the book *right side up* before
> reading the text on its spine?
>
> And how, may I ask, do you know the book has over
> 300 pages if there are no page numbers? Don't tell me
> you actually counted them, one by one... .

Well, in fact I did.

The original Whitaker book had exactly 318 pages. I had to know that
in order to reproduce the book.

However, the Sam Sloan reprint has 336 pages. In order to accomplish
this I deleted the blank pages in the Whitaker book and then I added
pictures of Whitaker, pictures of Hartleb, pictures of Sam Sloan with
Whitaker, a brief biography of Whitaker, a biography of Hartleb and
four games played by Hartleb, a biography of Laucks, a description of
Whitaker's criminal career including what he astually did in
connection with the Lindbergh kidnapping, tributes to Whitaker and
Hartleb written by various chess personalities and other biographical
material.

It is a rather complete book.

Sam Sloan

Date: 26 Jun 2007 09:55:13
From: help bot
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 26, 9:14 am, J=FCrgen R. <[email protected] > wrote:

> >There are other odd things about the book. The book is over 300 pages
> >but it has no page numbers. The words on the spine are printed upside
> >down from the way they should be.
>
> If you would read a book occasionally you wouldn't need to make up so
> much nonsense and you might have noticed that, while most English and
> American books have text on the spine running from top to bottom, by
> no means all of them do. I can see on my shelf titles running the
> other way in German, French, Russian and English.

Have you tried turning the book *right side up* before
reading the text on its spine?

And how, may I ask, do you know the book has over
300 pages if there are no page numbers? Don't tell me
you actually counted them, one by one... .

Look, if the author had included page numbers the
critics would have demanded an index. And if he had
included an index, they would complain that the games
were not arranged by opening, player, date, ECO code,
and so forth. You can't please some people, so it's
better to just leave off the table of contents, page
numbers, the index, and all that. And have the spine
read upside-down. And misspell a word on the cover,
to stop them in their tracks before they can examine
the contents for diagram errors or misspellings or wrong
dates. A good example of how this is done would be
the book by GM Evans: "Tin Mustakes Beginners Make
and How to Aviod Them".

-- hep blot

Date: 26 Jun 2007 08:12:44
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 26, 10:01 am, "Chess One" <[email protected] > wrote:
> "J=FCrgen R." <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:[email protected]...
>
> > No copyright notice is necessary - the book is still protected.
> > Incidentally, this was also true in the USSR.
>
> I just wrote to Murad Amannazarov, Director of Russian Chess House for any
> clarification he might have, J=FCrgen, and will write his response here.
>
> Phil Innes

Thank you.

He will probably send me some more books to reprint, since I have the
capability and he probably does not.

Sam Sloan

Date: 26 Jun 2007 21:26:53
From: Chess One
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

"samsloan" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
On Jun 26, 10:01 am, "Chess One" <[email protected] > wrote:
> "J�rgen R." <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:[email protected]...
>
> > No copyright notice is necessary - the book is still protected.
> > Incidentally, this was also true in the USSR.
>
> I just wrote to Murad Amannazarov, Director of Russian Chess House for any
> clarification he might have, J�rgen, and will write his response here.
>
> Phil Innes

Thank you.

He will probably send me some more books to reprint, since I have the
capability and he probably does not.

--------
**I notice he requires payment for such. Sam Sloan is a bit shy to actually
disclose what any agreement he might have actually is - that is, specifics.

No doubt Russian Chesshouse advertises available intellectual properties -
they advertise them to anything in chess that moves, and certainly not for
free.

What Sam Sloan means by 'capacity to reprint' for a print-on-demand set-up
is unknown.

Phil Innes
--------

Sam Sloan

Date: 25 Jun 2007 10:07:45
From: J�rgen R.
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:37:52 -0700, samsloan <[email protected] >
wrote:

>On Jun 24, 7:50 pm, J�rgen R. <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:33:16 -0700, Richard <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On Jun 24, 11:51 am, samsloan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> This book was originally published as a hard cover book in the Soviet
>> >> Union, Is that the book you bought for $5 ? I am very surprised that
>> >> you got such a good deal.
>>
>> >> Sam Sloan
>>
>> >If it was only published in the Soviet Union, why is it in English?
>>
>> The Soviets did a lot of English translations, usually published by
>> Mir.
>> It isn't very likely that Sloan bothered about copyright, so in the
>> unlikely event that he gets elected the board will soon have reason to
>> throw him out. It should be a simple matter to get the bylaws changed,
>> if necessary, to keep felons off the board.
>
>It is very well known that the Soviets never signed the International
>Copyright convention and pirated many books published in the west.

Sloan, there is simply no point discussing anything with you because
you are too ignorant and you make up things whenever it suits you.

You have evidently stolen the copyright for this book and you don't
seem to care who the owner is. Probably the Russian original was
published by 'Fiskultura i Sport', the State publishing house that
published most (maybe all) chess books in the SU. It should be a
simple matter to find out who the legal successor of this publisher
is.

The translation has a separate copyright attached to it, which you are
also stealing.

I think I will send an email to Amazon alerting them to the fact that
'Ishi Press' is a fraud that sells - if indeed it does find customers
- pirated books.

>
>Sam Sloan

Date: 24 Jun 2007 17:50:26
From: Paul Rubin
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

samsloan <[email protected] > writes:
> It is very well known that the Soviets never signed the International
> Copyright convention and pirated many books published in the west.

The USSR joined the convention on May 27, 1973:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_Soviet_Union

Date: 24 Jun 2007 16:29:21
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 24, 7:09 pm, Ralf Callenberg <[email protected] > wrote:
> 24.06.2007 23:14, samsloan:
>
> >> No doubt you will soon get sued for copyright infringement.
>
> > By whom?
>
> Surviving members of Mr. Kasparyan's family maybe?
>
> Ralf

Sorry. Perhaps you have forgotten that the Soviet Union never had a
copyright law.

Most of the endgames in the book were not by Kasparyan but were by a
wide variety of other authors. There are even a few problems by Sam
Loyd, an American.

The book by Whitaker, which I have also reprinted, is cited as a
source by Kasparyan.

http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Chess-Endings-Each-Year/dp/0923891846/

Sam Sloan

Date: 24 Jun 2007 15:33:16
From: Richard
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 24, 11:51 am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
>
> This book was originally published as a hard cover book in the Soviet
> Union, Is that the book you bought for $5 ? I am very surprised that
> you got such a good deal.
>
> Sam Sloan

If it was only published in the Soviet Union, why is it in English?
Did a Soviet publisher intentionally do an English language edition to
sell outside the USSR?

The vendor I bought it from at a chess tournament had a bunch of old,
used books in boxes. It looked like he'd recently purchased someone's
collection or something and was just trying to unload them all
relatively cheap. I don't think he realized what a popular book this
is. That's why I grabbed it immediately, even knowing that it would
take me a while of studying simpler material before I was ready for
something this complex. Eventually, I'll get around to going through
this one.

--Richard

Date: 25 Jun 2007 01:50:52
From: J�rgen R.
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:33:16 -0700, Richard <[email protected] >
wrote:

>On Jun 24, 11:51 am, samsloan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> This book was originally published as a hard cover book in the Soviet
>> Union, Is that the book you bought for $5 ? I am very surprised that
>> you got such a good deal.
>>
>> Sam Sloan
>
>If it was only published in the Soviet Union, why is it in English?

The Soviets did a lot of English translations, usually published by
Mir.
It isn't very likely that Sloan bothered about copyright, so in the
unlikely event that he gets elected the board will soon have reason to
throw him out. It should be a simple matter to get the bylaws changed,
if necessary, to keep felons off the board.

Date: 24 Jun 2007 14:18:24
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 24, 4:02 pm, Ralf Callenberg <[email protected] > wrote:
> 24.06.2007 17:39, Richard:
>
> > Fourth, this book has already been published in English once.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Domination-2-545-Endgame-Studies/dp/0828521611/
>
> Greetings,
> Ralf

Right. It is the same book. You can get the used out-of-print only
five left hard cover edition from Amazon for $75 if you prefer that to
the new paperback edition for $29 from Sam Sloan.

Sam Sloan

Date: 25 Jun 2007 01:06:35
From: Ralf Callenberg
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

24.06.2007 23:18, samsloan:

> Right. It is the same book. You can get the used out-of-print only
> five left hard cover edition from Amazon for $75 if you prefer that to
> the new paperback edition for $29 from Sam Sloan.

I won't do neither. I just pointed out, which book it is, Richard owns.

Ralf

Date: 24 Jun 2007 14:14:00
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 24, 2:12 pm, J=FCrgen R. <[email protected] > wrote:

> No doubt you will soon get sued for copyright infringement.

By whom?

Sam Sloan

Date: 25 Jun 2007 01:09:20
From: Ralf Callenberg
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

24.06.2007 23:14, samsloan:

>> No doubt you will soon get sued for copyright infringement.
>
> By whom?

Surviving members of Mr. Kasparyan's family maybe?

Ralf

Date: 24 Jun 2007 16:04:26
From: Ray Gordon, creator of the \pivot\
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

> Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies by Ghenrikh M. Kasparyan

I've owned this book for over 20 years, and it's my favorite of all. I love
the study of piece-trapping.

--
Ray Gordon
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welcome witnesses. In fact, they come to believe the witness causes the
trouble."

-- John Steinbeck

Date: 24 Jun 2007 08:51:47
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Jun 24, 11:39 am, Richard <[email protected] > wrote:

> Thirdly, how do you get that 2545 is 211 more than 5334?

You are right. I made a mistake in math. Sorry.

As far as comparing it to the Polgar book, I was making a semi-joke,
as you are correct that the books are completely different.

This book was originally published as a hard cover book in the Soviet
Union, Is that the book you bought for $5 ? I am very surprised that
you got such a good deal.

Sam Sloan

Date: 24 Jun 2007 20:12:24
From: J�rgen R.
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:51:47 -0700, samsloan <[email protected] >
wrote:

>On Jun 24, 11:39 am, Richard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thirdly, how do you get that 2545 is 211 more than 5334?
>
>You are right. I made a mistake in math. Sorry.
>
>As far as comparing it to the Polgar book, I was making a semi-joke,
>as you are correct that the books are completely different.
>
>This book was originally published as a hard cover book in the Soviet
>Union, Is that the book you bought for $5 ? I am very surprised that
>you got such a good deal.
>
>Sam Sloan

No doubt you will soon get sued for copyright infringement.

Date: 24 Jun 2007 08:39:23
From: Richard
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

I'm confused.

First of all, what does this book have to do with Sam Sloan?

Secondly, what does it have to do with Polgar's book that Sloan
compares it to? They're on completely different subjects! One is a
book for beginners to learn basic tactics, priily through 1 to 3
move checkmates, while the other is intemediate to master level
endgame studies.

Thirdly, how do you get that 2545 is 211 more than 5334?

Fourth, this book has already been published in English once. I know,
because I own a copy. I had heard that it's a great book for seriously
mastering endgames. As an intermediate player, I'm not up to that
level yet, but when I saw this used at a tournament vendor for under
$5, I bought it. One of these days, I'll actually get around to
reading it. :p

So... what was the point of all this?

--Richard

Date: 24 Jun 2007 22:02:37
From: Ralf Callenberg
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

24.06.2007 17:39, Richard:

> Fourth, this book has already been published in English once.

http://www.amazon.com/Domination-2-545-Endgame-Studies/dp/0828521611/

Greetings,
Ralf

Date: 24 Jun 2007 05:18:58
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: New Sam Sloan Chess Book out Today!!

New chess book out today!!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891870

Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies by Ghenrikh M. Kasparyan

This book is devoted to those endgame studies where the win in
achieved by trapping or "Dominating" the opponents pieces, especially
those where a weaker piece is able to trap a piece that is normally
stronger.

Here is must be mentioned that the assembling of such a huge
collection of 2545 endgame studies was made possible only by the fact
that there were no copyright laws in the Soviet Union where this book
was first printed.

The first position in the book illustrates the theme. White has a pawn
on a5, a knight on d4 a bishop on c2 and a king on b2. Black has a
king on c5, a pawn on h2 and a bishop on h6.

It looks like black has a draw. Regardless of whether white moves his
pawn, his knight or his bishop, black will be able to ch his king
over and grab the pawn on a5, drawing the game. However, White has
Kh1, creating a zugzwang. Black has four king moves and six bishop
moves. However, all four king moves put the king further away from the
pawn and white will be able to queen. All six bishop moves allow a
knight fork winning the bishop and the game.

Check it out! If the black bishop goes to f8, g7, g5 or f4, White
plays Ne6 check winning the knight. If Black goes B to c1 or d2, White
plays Nb3 forking the king and bishop, winning the bishop.

Genrikh Moiseyevich Kasparyan was born on 27 February 1910 in Tbilisi,
Republic of Georgia and died on 27 December 1995 in Yerevan, Armenia.
In addition to being a composer, he was also an active chess player,
winning the Armenian Championship. His name in Russian was
.

Sam Sloan
June 11, 2007