English Chess Forum

There is no way that a popular vote would work, because most people would vote on books they hadn't read. Chesscom does this, which is why I make no effort to engage with them. It's run by a bunch of knobs, and Chessable even more so. Chesscom just awards its varous annual gongs to its business par...

Each publisher is invited to nominate and send in 2 of its books to the ECF. So we (me=Elk and Ruby) send them to the 3 judges, physically or electronically, in accordance with the particular judge's requirements (eg Jovi H always wants electronic versions as she lives in Norway and is always travel...