Paul, your thread has been a labour of love.
I notice that most of the feedback was about opening books.
'When will they ever learn....When will they e-v-e-r learn.'
By all accounts sales of Rampant Chess exceeding expectations.
Keith emailed me yesterday saying just think how many copies we
would have sold if we called it Rampant Chess Openings!
Your thread is excellent - perhaps you could write a book called
Book Reviews..including Opening Books
I wimped out on the opening books.
I stopped around Alekhine's Defense or so.
I didn't do any queen pawn opening book reviews, but I will do any of them on request. 🙂
I kind of feel bad about that and may in fact come back to them.
Right now, I am a little tired of chess. I always do too much too fast.
Between that and all the meds I just got on, it's a wonder I can see straight.
I haven't even had an aspirin in months and the other day at the hospital they pumped me up with everything. In 13 days or so, these darn subscriptions will run out and I can be drug free again. I hate drugs in any form.
A few of the books I wish I had reviewed are the other Hooper book Winning Against 1.d4 (they switched to algebraic in this one, so your "buddy" won't have to change it over for you 🙂 ), The Blackmar Diemer Keybook 2 (aka an introduction to quick kills in the opening), Basman's a6 and g4 books, and Bellin's Classical Dutch just to name a few.
Just think what I could do with newer books.
Chess Book Reviewer would be a really nice job, even if the only pay was the actual books. 🙂