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Bluff Your Way in Chess (The Bluffer's Guides)

Bluff Your Way in Chess (The Bluffer's Guides)

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A small quantity of attempted humor
Review: I was expecting something along the lines of Hartston's "How to Cheat at Chess", which is hilarious. Instead, this book is a tiny, 64-page treatise whose stated purpose is to establish, for the non-chess player, the appearance of knowledge through buzzwords and short stories. There are brief (2-page) biographies of a couple of dozen historical and present-day chess figures. The first is Alexander Alekhine, whose emigration from Russia to France brings out the worst of the author's racism: "To be born French may be accounted ill luck, but to enter into it voluntarily is depravity of a high order...." Come on. But there is some genuine humor on the next page, when he describes Alekhine's Defense (1...Nf6) as "the chess equivalent of hormone weedkiller, stimulating White into such a frenzy of development that he would outgrow his own strength and collapse." The best feature of this book is its low price. You might want to order it along with something else.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A small quantity of attempted humor
Review: I was expecting something along the lines of Hartston's "How to Cheat at Chess", which is hilarious. Instead, this book is a tiny, 64-page treatise whose stated purpose is to establish, for the non-chess player, the appearance of knowledge through buzzwords and short stories. There are brief (2-page) biographies of a couple of dozen historical and present-day chess figures. The first is Alexander Alekhine, whose emigration from Russia to France brings out the worst of the author's racism: "To be born French may be accounted ill luck, but to enter into it voluntarily is depravity of a high order...." Come on. But there is some genuine humor on the next page, when he describes Alekhine's Defense (1...Nf6) as "the chess equivalent of hormone weedkiller, stimulating White into such a frenzy of development that he would outgrow his own strength and collapse." The best feature of this book is its low price. You might want to order it along with something else.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Interesting !
Review: very nice book ... usefull for winning quickly ! if u like quik & short games .. this is ur book !


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