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MR

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01 Sep 07

Originally posted by Sam The Sham
actually he just ordered it from a used book store online after doing a key word search on the title, got an almost pristine copy
My favorite search tool for used books is the "Used & Out of Print" tab on the AddALL site. It seems to catch almost all of the major used book resellers.

http://www.addall.com/

STS

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01 Sep 07

Originally posted by ouwe belg
I've always found the used booksellers on amazon to be very strange.Take this Oxford companion...book for instance,it ranges in price from 82£ to 8.50£ all in 'very good' condition.Makes no sense to me 😕
82 E !!! I assume you mean Euros. My God. My friend got it for twenty bucks.

(American dollars). I guess that's a great deal of money in your country.

STS

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01 Sep 07

OK i did everybodies homework:

http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Companion-Chess-David-Hooper/dp/0192800493

The new edition is $19.99 American, soft bound, which I might buy. Hardcover first editions are 23 dollars.

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01 Sep 07

Its only me. Is a decent book to read and study. Its about a Guy called Tony Miles. Englands 1st grandmaster..........Oddly enough both the gentleman in question and the book title are an anagram!!

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02 Sep 07

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In one of his books, IM Jeremy Silman claims that when he was a low class player as a kid, that his rating jumped several hundred points after reading "The Art of Chess Combination."

MR

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Originally posted by Hells Caretaker
Its only me. Is a decent book to read and study. Its about a Guy called Tony Miles. Englands 1st grandmaster..........Oddly enough both the gentleman in question and the book title are an anagram!!
It would be really cool if the anagram was a coincidence, but unfortunately it's not. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Tony enjoyed anagrams, and his handle on a major chess server (I think ICC) was It's Only Me.

Edit - And a fairly detailed review of the book by Taylor Kingston. (I generally really like Taylor's reviews.)

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review393.pdf