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Re: Queen's Gambit book by Lemos
Reply #10 - 11/22/16 at 15:05:37
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VKap wrote on 11/21/16 at 21:08:09:
Lemos is probably the shadiest of authors..
I dont trust anyone related to OnlineChessLessons or whatever its called now.


Why do you say that about Lemos? I think his first book and videos that I've seen are decent.
  
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Re: Queen's Gambit book by Lemos
Reply #9 - 11/21/16 at 21:08:09
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Lemos is probably the shadiest of authors..
I dont trust anyone related to OnlineChessLessons or whatever its called now.
  
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Re: Queen's Gambit book by Lemos
Reply #8 - 11/20/16 at 22:10:08
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Respectfully, that is incorrect usage of the term.

Check a dictionary. There are plenty online for free.
Check also one of the online corpora for examples of usage.
Ask an educated friend.

You omitted 'political' from the 'definition' provided. Deliberately? Source of the definition? Or is it your own definition? Words have commonly understood meanings - it is how language can function.

The term is not used in marketing products, but in the political sphere.

It baffles me that a player can be upset by a publishing house being candid with their customers. I get the disapppointment, when one is excited about a forthcoming book, but not the anger.
  
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Re: Queen's Gambit book by Lemos
Reply #7 - 11/20/16 at 21:34:24
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Bibs wrote on 11/20/16 at 02:31:54:
barnaby wrote on 11/17/16 at 15:00:36:
Straggler wrote on 11/17/16 at 13:03:53:
Indeed. The website was still giving the publication date as 15 Nov right up to that date. Quite a contrast with the way Quality Chess (for example) keep their customers informed.


Quality does put out good books but their propaganda arm on that blog is not reliable as far as dates are concerned.

Don't believe their hype.


Bizarre. 'Propaganda arm'??! It is a chess book publisher, not the old Soviet Union. That's a bit tin foil hat, chemtrails type thinking to talk in such a way. Oh, do behave.

I find QC to be refreshingly candid and honest, myself. They have massively raised the chess publishing quality bar. They put out darned good books. Everyman, hmm, well. Sometimes very good (notably Rot't'ella, Scherbakov), sometimes less so.

Anyway, chess books come out when they come out. It's a board game, and these are books about a board game. It's a big universe....




Get over it and yourself. 

Propaganda is information that is not impartial and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda.

That is a viable, working definition of the word.

"Quality Chess is full of chess propaganda on their self serving blog," is both a valid opinion and statement and I stand by it.






  
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Re: Queen's Gambit book by Lemos
Reply #6 - 11/20/16 at 02:31:54
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barnaby wrote on 11/17/16 at 15:00:36:
Straggler wrote on 11/17/16 at 13:03:53:
Indeed. The website was still giving the publication date as 15 Nov right up to that date. Quite a contrast with the way Quality Chess (for example) keep their customers informed.


Quality does put out good books but their propaganda arm on that blog is not reliable as far as dates are concerned.

Don't believe their hype.


Bizarre. 'Propaganda arm'??! It is a chess book publisher, not the old Soviet Union. That's a bit tin foil hat, chemtrails type thinking to talk in such a way. Oh, do behave.

I find QC to be refreshingly candid and honest, myself. They have massively raised the chess publishing quality bar. They put out darned good books. Everyman, hmm, well. Sometimes very good (notably Rot't'ella, Scherbakov), sometimes less so.

Anyway, chess books come out when they come out. It's a board game, and these are books about a board game. It's a big universe....

  
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Re: Queen's Gambit book by Lemos
Reply #5 - 11/19/16 at 13:52:46
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Unreliability is one thing; continuing to state a publication date long after you know you can't possibly meet it is another.
  
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Re: Queen's Gambit book by Lemos
Reply #4 - 11/17/16 at 15:00:36
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Straggler wrote on 11/17/16 at 13:03:53:
Indeed. The website was still giving the publication date as 15 Nov right up to that date. Quite a contrast with the way Quality Chess (for example) keep their customers informed.


Quality does put out good books but their propaganda arm on that blog is not reliable as far as dates are concerned.

Don't believe their hype.
  
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Re: Queen's Gambit book by Lemos
Reply #3 - 11/17/16 at 13:44:06
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Yes, well, I'm not sure QC is a completely positive example where delaying books is concerned Smiley
  
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Re: Queen's Gambit book by Lemos
Reply #2 - 11/17/16 at 13:03:53
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Indeed. The website was still giving the publication date as 15 Nov right up to that date. Quite a contrast with the way Quality Chess (for example) keep their customers informed.
  
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Re: Queen's Gambit book by Lemos
Reply #1 - 11/15/16 at 13:59:19
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Postponed to 31 Mar 2017   Sad
  
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Queen's Gambit book by Lemos
10/10/16 at 22:38:59
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Apologies if this is common knowledge, but I've just noticed that next month (or January in the US) Everyman are publishing a Queen's Gambit repertoire book for White by Damian Lemos. What interests me about this is that, though there is as yet no indication of the lines he will recommend, Lemos himself doesn't seem to go in for the exchange variation: in fact he usually plays Nf3 before c4. So hopefully this won't be yet another book recommending the exchange.
  
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