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Date: 30 Nov 2007 23:45:00
From: Offramp
Subject: Titles of chess books that might confuse a layman
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Non-chess players, if they just saw the title of a chess book, might
be really puzzled as to what that book might be about.
For example:
The Sicilian Labyrinth by Lev Polugaevsky
Thinks: "A Russian investigative reporter investigates the Mafia".
Understanding the Spanish:
"They are a bit far-out, I suppose."
The Queen's Indian
"Is she?"
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Date: 01 Dec 2007 08:49:49
From: Chess One
Subject: Re: Titles of chess books that might confuse a layman
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"Offramp" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:20a4119b-a2c8-46a1-9810-c68d2b820cc0@y43g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
> Non-chess players, if they just saw the title of a chess book, might
> be really puzzled as to what that book might be about.
>
> For example:
> The Sicilian Labyrinth by Lev Polugaevsky
> Thinks: "A Russian investigative reporter investigates the Mafia".
>
> Understanding the Spanish:
> "They are a bit far-out, I suppose."
>
> The Queen's Indian
> "Is she?"
laugh!
The Bishop's Opening <yikes! >
but I would agree that Sicily appears to have more exotic wildlife than any
other place [except for the second Sicily] with its Pelikans and Dragons,
and these days Dragons on skate-boards, viz: the hyper-accelerated Dragon.
PI
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Date: 01 Dec 2007 03:40:32
From: help bot
Subject: Re: Titles of chess books that might confuse a layman
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On Dec 1, 2:45 am, Offramp <[email protected] > wrote:
> Non-chess players, if they just saw the title of a chess book, might
> be really puzzled as to what that book might be about.
>
> For example:
> The Sicilian Labyrinth by Lev Polugaevsky
> Thinks: "A Russian investigative reporter investigates the Mafia".
>
> Understanding the Spanish:
> "They are a bit far-out, I suppose."
>
> The Queen's Indian
> "Is she?"
"Black is OK"
"Alekhine's Defense"
"Beating the King's Indian"
"The Big Book of Busts"
"The Black Knight's Tango"
"Danish Dynamite"
"Stonewall Defense"
"The Dynamic English"
"The English Attack"
"The Four Knights"
"The Hippopotamus Rises"
"The London System"
"The shall Attack"
"The Philidor Files"
"The Safest Sicilian"
"The Slav"
"The Yugoslav Attack"
"Attack and Defense"
"The Final Countdown"
"The 'Art' of Bisguier"
"Draw!"
"Fire on Board"
"The Magic of Mikhail Tal"
"Spielmann: Master of Invention"
"Kings, Commoners, an Knaves"
"The System"
"Understanding the Sacrifice"
I'll tell you what's puzzling, is having someone
show you an ECO volume for the very first time;
"what are all those funny symbols?", you might
ask. "Oh, those are just a few of the variations
I memorized since getting this new version of
volume 5", comes the matter-of-fact reply. "I
left the other four volumes at home this time".
Another puzzling fact is that "there are more
books about chess, than about all other (fill in
the blank)s combined." What a waste.
-- help bot
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