Seth_Xoma wrote on 09/02/08 at 15:59:27:




But Seth, please don't be under the impression that ANYONE here in England refers to football as 'soccer'.  That's a grave insult to our national sport 

In fact, chess is not so difficult: you just have to learn when is the right moment to offer a draw!

ANONYMOUS3000 wrote on 08/29/08 at 22:41:08:

Anyone also writing Starting Out, Cheating?

Needless to say, it would be a best-seller. It means we won't have any more scaredy yellow cowards who are afraid to cheat due to fear of being caught. 

Another book planned by Everyman:

Play the Man (not the board)
By Garry Kasparov

The opponent has a well-deserved reputation of being the man that you must crush like a bug and beat like a drum, and it is no coincidence that it has been used by all the world champions in chess history. Put simply, playing the man is a brilliant strategy that can improve your own play while worsening the opponent's during play.

In this book, Garry Kasparov presents a repertoire of ways in which you can play the man successfully to defeat him in chess. He highlights the main ideas and the counters you must watch out for. This book will provide you with more than enough ways to Play the Man with confidence in your own games, whilst still making good moves on the chessboard.

Not to be confused with "Play the Woman", a book which Everyman still refuses to publish despite requests by many people, predominantly males.

JEH wrote on 08/29/08 at 18:53:52:


Yes, or as one master-rated player did recently after losing to one of my students, refusing to shake hands and skulking off while muttering to himself about being rusty.

Actually I wonder if this should be Starting Out book since it really is more of a repertoire book.  Certainly "Resigns" for many people would be a complete repertoire, and it would not even require them to change their play very much.  One thing you can say about Resigns is that there is very little need to memorize theory.

SWJediknight wrote on 08/29/08 at 17:42:46:


That second line is known as the Fred Double Gambit, or as some call it, the Double Fred. It certainly should be treated in Starting Out: Resigns, since there are many points at which the two systems transpose into each other.

thibdb13 wrote on 08/29/08 at 13:39:01:


They say that a good time to offer a draw is when your chances are doubtful, but you are able to find a move that initiates complications.  I did that once just because I had heard of this principle.  I offered the draw and went to the restroom.  When I got back and sat down, my opponent politely said no, looked down, and played a bad move.  I won.