On Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 1:03:31 AM UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Friday, November 11, 2022 at 10:42:41 PM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:
> > On Friday, November 11, 2022 at 1:23:24 PM UTC-7, William Hyde wrote:
> >
> > > In a "Brewsters millions" scenario I'd pay John Nunn a hundred thousand pounds to annotate a decent
> > > version of Blackburne's games (B's own annotations are in the sparse 1800s style) and publish it.
> > I was surprised to hear that, even if the most famous annotated collection of the games of
> > Joseph Henry Blackburne is his own, that there wasn't one by a modern master.
> >
> > So I went searching, on Amazon. I found a possible one by John C. Murray (British Chess Strategy) and
> > an almost certain one by Lyudmil Tsvetkov (Blackburne for Buffs).

Thanks. I was unaware of that book.

> >
> > Good news; he is Bulgarian, not Russian, so you will have no reason to have qualms about
> > ordering a copy of his book.
> There is also Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography by Tim Harding, but while it presents
> a large selection of his games, I'm not sure that it annotates any of them.

Harding is a good writer, and I'm sure that is a good book. But neither of the above is exactly
what I am looking for. As with Pillsbury, there are a number of books, but none that
can compare with, say Botvinnik's, Keres', or Larsen's collections.

A number of books have come out in the past few decades on players from the late 1800s,
Richard Forster's "Amos Burn", for example. I haven't looked for it for some time, last I
did it was over $100.

Now that Carlson has retired as WC, perhaps he can write some books, starting with
"Michael Basman's 60 most eccentric games".

Pity rec.games.chess.misc is dead. We could have this discussion there.

William Hyde

On Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 2:50:01 PM UTC-7, William Hyde wrote:

> Now that Carlson has retired as WC, perhaps he can write some books, starting with
> "Michael Basman's 60 most eccentric games".

Somehow, I doubt that that's the sort of topic Magnus Carlsen would make a
priority!

> Pity rec.games.chess.misc is dead. We could have this discussion there.

It still has a few active regulars, so I wouldn't say it's quite dead yet.

John Savard

On Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 7:00:10 PM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:

> Of all the games of Chess ever played, Anderssen-Kieseretzky 1851 happens
> to be the one considered the most entertaining, and it is the one that has been
> reproduced the most frequently in collections of past chess games of interest.

In fact, even *my* web site pays homage to it, on the page

http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/ch0003.htm

John Savard

On Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 8:02:09 PM UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 2:50:01 PM UTC-7, William Hyde wrote:
>
> > Now that Carlson has retired as WC, perhaps he can write some books, starting with
> > "Michael Basman's 60 most eccentric games".
> Somehow, I doubt that that's the sort of topic Magnus Carlsen would make a
> priority!

It would be a challenge to him, to regain his title playing Basmania.

After all, Spassky played the hippopotamus in one of his world championship
matches.

> > Pity rec.games.chess.misc is dead. We could have this discussion there.
> It still has a few active regulars, so I wouldn't say it's quite dead yet.

That's just the corpse twitching.

Nine in ten posts are by Eli showing how someone has blundered against him
in lichess. Often the same blunder he's shown ten times before.

You and I constitute most of the rest. I would post more of my lichess games
were they not so very awful. I had a nice mate in five a few days ago, but
I had the same mate on the previous move, and didn't see it, which rather
spoils the esthetic. But since stockfish six missed it twice, at least
we know that it doesn't look five moves ahead.

William Hyde