Originally posted by Squelchbelch
I'm sure I read somewhere that chesscafe is deeply biased concerning it's reviews & won't even look at books from certain authors & publishers.
The book reviews here
http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews/book_reviews.html
I find pretty useful.
If ChessCafe is biased, they've never been vocal about it. I've heard a few rumors about possible biases, but that's all they are: rumors. However, even if the rumors were true, I suspect most of their biases would line up pretty well with mine. 😏 And it would certainly be their right to be biased, if that's their desire.
For myself, I'm very happy with the quality of ChessCafe reviews. Yeah, there are times when they haven't reviewed a book that I'm interested in, but they can't review every chess book that's published. I can say that when ChessCafe does review a book, I can usually rely on it to be a thorough and well-done review. Taylor Kingston writes some of the most literate and thoughtful chess book reviews anywhere. I just wish he could write all of the ChessCafe book reviews. And to show my appreciation to ChessCafe for their book review efforts, I have sometimes ordered books from them, even though other internet sellers had lower prices.
I also like Silman's reviews. He usually puts a lot of effort into them, but occasionally he'll throw out a shortie that looks like it was a "just before the deadline" work.