Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 23:32:00 06/24/04
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On June 24, 2004 at 19:47:59, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 24, 2004 at 19:24:38, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: > >>On June 24, 2004 at 18:41:17, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>I would like to buy this book written in English, if it will be available. >>> >>>Jorge >> >>Nice Idea! But I do not calculate for a lot of customers to buy it, even in >>German language. I still will do a little bit for the marketing of it. When >>there would be a sufficient resonance, may be it would also be translated by me >>(but I am not the expert) into English then. So the chances are weak yet. >> >>Have you an idea whether that FRC book (then in English) would have any chances >>to successfully go to market in Great Britain or the USA? For now your request >>only is the second one I could read. >> >>Within that FRC book there are no langage depending piece letters used, but >>piece symbols instead. That way the original comments to the eight first Chess >>Classic Mainz 2003 Chess960 World Championchip games are internationally >>readable included, moreover in their original language, which partially has been >>in English. >> >>Thank you for being interested in this book. We will wait and see. >> >>Regards, Reinhard. >>-- >>[http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/fullchess1_e.html] >Hi Reinhard, Hello Russel, >I knew you were interested in FRC, but I didn't know you were writing a book >about it. What is your book about? Is it about the strategy in FRC, or is it a >game collection, or something else? it is a very basic book, e.g. targeting to motivate persons with less spare time (teens and twens included) to play this variant of chess, because it avoids the huge grown opening tree knowledge. There are some short texts about questions and claimed problems with FRC. But it also is a sort of FRC reference book, where you can learn about efficient shuffling methods. You also will find a table of all 960 starting arrays, an actual world ranking list of Chess960 protagonists, the eight World Championship games from 2003 in Mainz, ... There is a table of contents (in PDF) to be reached at my homesite, but that is still presented only in German language. But may be, it though could give a little impression of its goals. [http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/fullchess1_e.html] >I think an English version could sell well if you were able to get it into book >stores or get advertising on a popular website like chesscafe.com or something >like that. But I don't know how all of that works. Well here in Germany it mostly would be distributed via internet book stores, because the book is published via Book on Demands (BoD) [http://www.bod.de] during the next weeks. I have no contact to any publishers in USA or GB yet. >If I saw it in the chess section at Barnes and Noble, I would buy it (unless it >is very expensive or something). I do not think, that it would be to expensive. Here in Germany it costs Euro 12.90, but well, the book has only 116 pages. >There are so many boring cookie cutter beginner >chess books at Barnes and Noble. It would definitely stand out and catch my eye >there since it is not "the same old thing". Maybe I'll buy a German copy and >learn German :) That of course always would be a good idea. As I often have told: German is the most frequently spoken native language in Europe (if you would exclude bicontinental countries). :) Regards, Reinhard.
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