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Subject: Re: Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, part 3 (pre-order)

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 15:36:31 05/05/04

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On May 05, 2004 at 15:16:38, margolies,marc wrote:

>i have to tell you that in spite of the fanfare, i  am not a big fan of the
>english-language editions of these books...
>The russian editions, which I own have an amzing treasurabl photo collection
>also are have the price of the american book...
>the german-language edition is packaged with an accompanying cd-rom of the book
>for chessbase users for the same price as the british pressing.
>
>if the run of the pressing in english were smaller, then this would be a fair
>price for the coffee table books being sold. As it is, americans are being
>ripped off big time.
>

now that's not fair , but that's reality...


>
>On May 05, 2004 at 07:15:53, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>"Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, part 3"  is now available for
>>pre-order
>>
>>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1857443713/102-1546867-2454501?%5Fencoding=UTF8
>>
>>
>>I am pretty sure the books are ghost written, nonetheless, I have enjoyed them
>>as each page turn contains 3 to 4 diagrams - many interesting positions to train
>>your computer chess program on.  Your charge card is not charged until it is
>>shipped.  I'm sure other bookstores will let you preorder as well.  I just use
>>the Amazon link because that is where I ordered it from.  YMMV



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