Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 23:36:47 05/07/04
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On May 08, 2004 at 02:11:36, Russell Reagan wrote: >On May 08, 2004 at 01:37:01, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>I'm a big fan of CI. I have every single Volume 1-88 (89 is in on it's way) >>sitting on my bookself as well as the softcopy versions. >> >>I like CI because they give you the best of the latest. The games published >>by CI are very high quality and most are well annotated. > >What percentage of the games do you actually analyze (or just look over and try >to learn something, or whatever)? It seems like a lot of games to cover. I have >considered buying some of the CI stuff, but at this point I'm kind of a late >comer, and I don't think I (or any other person with a normal life) has the time >to cover 88 issues packed with games. What would you recommend to a person in my >situation? Start at issue 1 and just plug away until I am caught up one day many >years from now? Or just pick up with the latest? One - I'm a collector of sorts - so one reason why I have all the volumes is that I thought it would be neat to get them all. I actually started over 20 years ( I was about 16 years late to the party myself (the first volume #1 was printed in 1966.). I was fortunate that I had the foresight to collect some of earlier volumes (pre 1982) I missed early on - as a few of them are now sold out. But I picked up the vast majority of them the last several years. I was ab;e to acquire 55 of the volumes in just one ebay auction for about $400 - that was a good deal. I then had about 15 doubles which I sold individually on eBay. I suggest starting with the subscription plan which is a good deal. You can get 3 books w/CD for roughly 62 GBP directly - which covers one whole year. And then just start backfilling as the budget and time permit. Keep an eye out for a big auction as you will generally only pay about $7-8 per book. You can also contact CI directly to find out which ones are about to be sold out. The war year volumes (early mid 90's) are generally in short supply as well as some of the early years. Even the ones sold out can be found on eBay if you watch it long enough.
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