A review of three newly revised / reprinted books, two by Soltis and one by Chernev.

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/chernev-soltis/

Congrats to a really amazing happening in ones life! Larger than chess

January update:

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/january-update/

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Stigma wrote on 12/28/14 at 00:27:38:

Yes, upgrade discounts would be sensible. We'll know in a few years whether chess book publishers see it that way.


Charles Hertan's book Forcing Chess Moves is on its third edition, and errata correction is one of the main differences between editions 1 & 3 (I think).

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The static Kindle version of Ray Cheng's 600 Chess Exercises was originally so awful in its formatting that reviewers on Amazon .com were almost violent in their negative reviews.

A couple of long years later the Amazon entry included a statement that the Kindle version formatting had been fixed (improved so that it is usable in a practical sense).
In this case the previous buyers deserve the right to download the fixed version; but I do not know whether they can do so.

Personally I left my paper copy of Cheng's puzzle book in a hotel or on an airplane. So the Kindle edition would have spared me the loss of the book.
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So it happened yet again: A new edition of an important book appeared before I got around to really studying the previous one!

I guess my punishment this time will be to study all of the 3rd edition before I'm "allowed" to buy the new one.

I wonder how quick they'll be to get the 4th Ed. on Forward Chess though, that could be hard to resist... they really should start giving upgrade discounts to obsessive chess book byers like me!

Holiday Gifts for Chess Players:

http://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/holiday-gifts-for-chessplayers/

I was doubting to create a new thread but then I thought that it is easier afterwards to find all links to reviews on one place. I just had huge trouble to find an old post back as the search function doesn't always help. Anyway moderators can move my post to a new thread if this is preferred.

As this thread is about reviewing chess books on blogs, I just published one about the newest of Kasparov.
http://chess-brabo.blogspot.be/2014/11/kasparov-on-kasparov-part-3.html
I did not do the review myself, I only did the translation (as he lacks the time and I found it sufficiently interesting to share with a wider audience). The reviewer is an experienced writer himself, certainly writes much better than I and is always well-founded with his comments.