Unorthodox Chess Openings
Eric Schiller
Cardoza Publishing, 1998, 520 pp., £18.95
Utter crap.
Tony Miles
Published in Kingpin 29 (Autumn 1998)
Buy it here
Unorthodox Chess Openings
Eric Schiller
Cardoza Publishing, 1998, 520 pp., £18.95
Utter crap.
Tony Miles
Published in Kingpin 29 (Autumn 1998)
Buy it here
Kingpin is a very, very nice magazine
[its] satirical nature and penchant for sharp games makes it compulsive reading for the average club player
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In Kingpin, nothing is sacred, and this makes Kingpin such a hit
The joy of chess is nowhere celebrated to such climactic excesses as in Kingpin
the ‘Private Eye’ of the chess world
Both serious and funny, I recommend it to anyone who wants to smile as he reads
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uses impiety and parody to hew down the conventions of publishing, even including mock testimonials
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I concur!
Haha, the worst publication ever, the only thing unorthodox about this is probably what they had to do to get it published in the first place!