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Kevin Thurlow
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by Kevin Thurlow » Sun Dec 21, 2025 2:20 pm
John Saunders wrote: ↑Sun Dec 21, 2025 11:30 am
Ms Brown has clearly confused 'How to Play Winning Chess' with the author's follow-up
oeuvre 'Dieting for Chess Players'. Sadly the latter title is now unobtainable as the publishers suppressed it after seeing a photo of the author's less than svelte appearance.
Even less impressive was "Dieting for Chess Arbiters", Everyone who was there will recall the Hastings Congress where BH Wood mischievously presented a copy of the book to Ritson Morry, who glared at it, ripped out the frontispiece and used it to light his latest cigar. An Italian friend of mine assures me that chess arbiters are banned from Pisa, following the incident where several of them stood on the same side of a building.
And who can forget "Dating for Chess Players"?
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Matt Mackenzie
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by Matt Mackenzie » Sun Dec 21, 2025 4:32 pm
Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Sun Dec 21, 2025 2:20 pm
And who can forget "Dating for Chess Players"?
Another contender for "shortest ever chess book"?
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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John Upham
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by John Upham » Mon Dec 22, 2025 11:34 am
Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 21, 2025 4:32 pm
Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Sun Dec 21, 2025 2:20 pm
And who can forget "Dating for Chess Players"?
Another contender for "shortest ever chess book"?
Who should write the Foreword? Answers on a postcard please...
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Nick Burrows
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by Nick Burrows » Mon Dec 22, 2025 12:40 pm
John Upham wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 11:34 am
Who should write the Foreword? Answers on a postcard please...
Nigel Short - IT WAS A JOKE.
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MSoszynski
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by MSoszynski » Tue Dec 23, 2025 8:17 am
In 2004 Gambit Publications ran a competition for eye-catching titles for chess books. Not the winner, but my favourite, was this entry from the staff of the British Chess Magazine:
Garry Kasparov’s Ultimate Gambit Guide to the 101 Easy Winning Secrets of Beating Your Dad and Bobby Fischer for the Attacking Player
In 2016 Quality Chess asked for suggestions for the title of a new training book about becoming a Grandmaster. One that stood out (submitted appropriately enough by "Depressed Cynic") was:
Waste your Life Achieving a Devalued Title
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John Upham
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by John Upham » Tue Dec 23, 2025 3:11 pm
"Winning with the Damiano Defence" by Eric Schiller
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"Secrets of Pawnless Openings"
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