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Re: Worst chess books
Reply #3 - 07/12/06 at 16:42:35
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Mastering the SicilianDanny Kopec

Probably the only chessbook I've bought that I thought was a waste of good paper.
  
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Re: Worst chess books
Reply #2 - 07/12/06 at 14:47:39
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That was certainly pretty dire.  But for me Andrew Martin's The Hippopotamus Rises was worse.  [Sorry Andrew ... nothing personal ... I like some of your other stuff!]
  

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Reply #1 - 07/12/06 at 14:26:22
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The Scandinavian by Plaskett
  

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Worst chess books
07/12/06 at 14:23:48
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Anyone want to recommend which ones to avoid out of those published in the last couple of years ?
  
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