Antillian, I'm curious.  Where can I find coverage of the Catalan for Black?

For my own part I wouldnt be particularly bothered if the Catalan was included or not - would prefer the main work to be on the QGD, and the Catalan could turn out to be a major distraction. The publisher blurb also makes no mention of Catalan so I would assume not, although I can see why some looking for the "complete repertoire" might like some guidance there, but the philosophy seems to be a hardcore book on the QGD, and I hope thats what they stick with!

For those interested in discussing advertising on the chess publishing.com website, please go to: 

http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1265220818

This disaster of a thread is corrupted not only by my own stupid fulminations over "whilst," but also by all this about advertising.  Mea maxima culpa! Rather than try to sort it out into new threads, I simply declare now that any further posts to this thread not concerning Cox's forthcoming QGD book will be summarily deleted.  

Message me if you think there is advertising in a section of the forum for which I am responsible.  Public advocacy on this question should be posted under "Chess Publishing General, Discussion."

I happen to know the original poster, and he hardly works for Everyman. He found the info online and wanted to discuss it, so he pasted some of the info here. If you don't want to read the "advertisment", don't follow the thread. It's not that complicated...

Keano wrote on 02/03/10 at 15:26:00:


Well I would bow to the consensus view, but I don't think anyone but you is complaining.  I see that you concede the unlikelihood of the OP having a financial interest in the work, so how can his post be an advertisement?  It's not as if it says, "Buy now! Only $19.95!"  Personally I don't hang out on book publisher's websites, so I don't mind when someone comes here with this kind of info.

True enough, I would rather not see people coming here, even titled players, and shilling their latest DVD and the like.  That's what "no advertising" means to me.  But this is not that.

There's somebody on this forum, rossia I think, who's always linking new book blurbs and posting quotations of them.  So if this has been our mode heretofore, what is the problem now?

I enjoy learning about forthcoming books through the chesspub forums.  The guy cut and pasted the information because that's the only thing that was available.  What is he supposed to do instead, just give a link to Everyman's website? That would probably be even more advertising-ish, as it would drive traffic to their website.

I think it would be a real shame if this sort of information were not allowed to be posted here because a fear of breaking some draconian rule.

Keano wrote on 02/03/10 at 11:16:57:


Assuming you are right about the thread being an advertisement, I'm surprised that Everyman would decide to publicise/market the book 12 months before the product is due to be published. In my opinion, it would make more sense to start advertising the book much closer to the publication date, say 3 months beforehand. 

I don't think the entire thread should be deleted - someone is just going to create another thread on this book just before the book is published. However, you are probably right that the original post and quotes of the original post should be deleted.