Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 09:22:05 03/15/03
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On March 15, 2003 at 11:58:22, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On March 15, 2003 at 11:05:33, KIRK SEARS wrote: > >>Just wondering. I have been looking at chess books on Amazon.com and have >>notice that chess books by Bruce Pandolfini often get poor ratings. I have not >>read one of his books yet (I am still plowing thru 500 Master games of Chess) >>but on a glance they do not look that bad. Are they just for beginners? Are >>their many typo's? >> >>What is the opinion here? > >I have of course not read every book by Pandolfini (nor do I want to), but my >very personal opinion based on a few of them and some of his old columns in >Chess Life, is that his writings are of very low chess quality. He takes lots of >material from other authors without giving proper credits (I think what he does >is almost plagiarism) and without even correcting their mistakes, it seems he >does not even try to find those mistakes. There were plenty of analytical >mistakes in his columns, but finding them was not fun or even instructive. >José. He's a good teacher for the U2000 player (beginner to club) , but after 2000 it's time to move on for the reasons noted above.
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