Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:51:01 03/15/03
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On March 15, 2003 at 12:22:05, Mike Byrne wrote: >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. I second that. Being a player WELL under 2000, I read two of his books and found them to be very instructive. I might even suggest that the majority of them are for Class B (U1800) players or lower, but they are, IMO, excellent books for their target audience. jm
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