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Chess & Bridge have withdrawn from sale Ray Keene's book on the Carlsen - Caruana World Championship Match.

C & B Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/chessandbridge?lang=en.

Review by Olimpiu G Urcan. which seems to have prompted C & B's action: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23138934.

Blog post by Justin Horton: http://lostontime.blogspot.com/2018/12/ ... -rays.html.

David Sedgwick wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:27 pm

Review by Olimpiu G Urcan. which seems to have prompted C & B's action: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23138934.

Curious that they only just saw it

David Sedgwick wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:27 pm

Blog post by Justin Horton: http://lostontime.blogspot.com/2018/12/ ... -rays.html.

And another

David Sedgwick wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:27 pm

Chess & Bridge have withdrawn from sale Ray Keene's book on the Carlsen - Caruana World Championship Match.

This is an extraordinary story in its own way.

It’s hard to imagine what Everyman were thinking of when they chose to publish this one. I suppose if you publish a dozen Lakdawala books a month there really is no bottom when it comes to quality.

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 15, 2019 7:02 am

Curious that they only just saw it

There's a full page ad in the January 2019 edition of Chess.

For that matter, it was centre stage on the bookstall at the London Chess Classic.

Goodness. It might become a collector's item!

Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:25 am

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 15, 2019 7:02 am

Curious that they only just saw it

There's a full page ad in the January 2019 edition of Chess.

For that matter, it was centre stage on the bookstall at the London Chess Classic.

Ha ha brilliant

It was also on the C&B bookstall at 4NCL last weekend, I did wonder why.

It is interesting...

Some years ago, a teacher that had written various chess books got locked up for sexual abuse of children. BCM immediately took all of those books off the shelves and stopped advertising them as it might upset victims of the person involved. Chess and Bridge carried on stocking and trying to sell the books.

So maybe they are now "trying to do the right thing"? But loads of books get pretty bad reviews... What are the criteria?

The really annoying thing is RDK is not a hack, when he wants to he can write in an entertaining and instructive manner.

Having said that in a way it is what this match deserved. The worst ever W.C. match gets a chess book covering it
that is pulled off the shelves and to be pulped. (I want a copy!).

RDK should do a book on the 4 drawn games played by the 'Fantastic Four' so that £230,000 could be divided
up amongst them. That would have been a classic to rival the Vainstein/Bronstein 'Chess Struggle..."

Ebay still have a copy.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Carlsen-v-Ca ... ctupt=true

Geoff Chandler wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:51 pm

The really annoying thing is RDK is not a hack, when he wants to he can write in an entertaining and instructive manner.

Not sure what the present tense is doing in that sentence

Maybe because someone wants more money? I think it is buyer beware on chess books. They can run their business as they like. At the last weekend it was very difficult having the bookstall right outside a playing area.

Ray doesn't have the best reputation it would seem. Given how soon it has come out, was his motive for writing so hurriedly being he wanted to be the first to cash in on the match?

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:28 am

Goodness. It might become a collector's item!

Banned books are always sought after. Must put this book on my WANTS list.

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:17 am

Relatedly

Out of interest, you say

JustinHorton wrote:you won't find any reference to The Spectator, or the notes having been previously published there or anywhere else

According to the Amazon graphic, the book was published on 1st May, 1997. The two Spectator graphics you quote were apparently published on 10th May, 1997 and 31st May, 1997.

So should The Spectator be referencing the book, rather than the other way around?