Originally posted by iChopWoodForFree
Except for I've only asked for reccomemended books, analyzed one endgame position posted by Deepthought, posted some facts about why those starting off as adults can't attain super gm chess strength and then this post.
My thoughts are that you just desperately want all the "cool kids" on this site to like you so you play the inflammatory troll a ...[text shortened]... fit the mold. It's no wonder these forums are all but dead when its filled with trolls like you.
Internet forums have a strange effect on people. Perfectly rational individuals become these egomaniacs solely interested in showing how the previous poster was WRONG™! If you look in debates or spirituality at any point in the future and look through some threads eventually I guarantee you'll find the words "logical fallacy". You will not find those words in debates in any other medium with anything like the frequency they appear in internet forums.
It was probably worth pointing out the errors in what I was saying about that endgame in the other thread. Looking back I should have checked with an engine before posting and used a different game where the long range of the bishop was important. The point of my post, that in some circumstances the knight's better and sometimes the bishop is, ended up being obscured though. Your point about patience in the ending was good, but annoying to me as I knew that, doubly so as it was perfectly valid criticism of what I'd done in that ending. It's really easy to irritate people in internet forums and end up in some flame war over nothing.
You're probably dismissing the Cheng book too quickly. It's tremendously difficult to find good examples to illustrate points, as I found when I posted those two game fragments.
The thing about books is that it's tremendously easy to buy lots of chess books and not get much out of them playing strength-wise. My policy with books is not to buy them unless I've got a specific targeted reason. For example, I'd like a copy of Winning Pawn Structures by Alexander Baburin because I want to understand IQP positions and the book is devoted to them. Problem is it costs £155, or £55 second hand, as it's out of print and people try to fleece each other (RRP £15.99). So I'm not buying it unless I come across it at a sane price. I have a targeted good reason for buying that book and an overriding reason not to. Without that one can end up with a huge, but rather pointless, chess library. Which is nice to have, but I've got other things to spend my money on.
So your criticism of the Cheng book may be useful to people, but it's a little premature if it's based on one position. Also it may be targeted at a range of playing strengths so some positions, especially the earlier ones, will be quite simple and as you get into the book you'll find deeper points being made. I don't know I've never looked at it.