HoemberChess wrote on 05/25/11 at 11:50:10:
but referred me to public databases, since he cannot send his own, as it has some value.
(Which I find strange, since if it is available in public then what could be so secret about it..?)
It's no secret that: "information is power".
If one GM thinks about publishing his/her games: what are pros and cons ?
Maybe he will think like this:
Pros:...I don't see one pro (I don't need to pusblish my games to be famous or be GM or be invited)..not now...maybe when I will be old or retired or dead..I or someome will publish my masterpiece games.
Cons:...Too much easy to analyze my games, use my ideas, ...to beat me...
I assisted one famous GM chess lesson...and he said jokingly: "oh...this move...I didn't write it in my book...but it's good move.... I must keep something for privacy and my own usage
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No writer or chessplayer can be critized for nor sharing games or ideas: it's life....don't be so naive about professional chess players.
Moskalenko is in fact very sharing in most of his books (more than many raw moves, with only glyphs comments: !?...)
No problem.
Anyway, I would have been interested only in the course of the games. (Without any further analyzis of the author.)
As I wrote, I had run into the same problem about the author's own missing sample games when studying Palliser's opening books. (some games cannot be found)