Originally posted by TainoBrothaOH NOES!Put the book down and slowly back away!
Is this book any good? :
"Standard Chess Openings" by Eric Schiller, 1998Cardoza
Publishing, English Algebraic Notation, Softcover, 756pp., $24.95
Sadly I own that book,I use it to keep my door from slamming shut.Was gonna sell it on ebay but couldn't bring myself to do something so terrible to another human being.
I am also ashamed to admit I am the sad owner of this book. It claims "More than 3,000 Opening Strategies Inside!". When I was finished with this book, I had made over 3,000 corrections (written in the book by myself, some of which I had to add extra sheets of paper to compensate for the lack of open space where I could correct the thousands of mistakes!) and I am simply disgusted with this trash. There are a few cases in which Schiller misses mates in 1!!! Some diagrams show the wrong positions, there are mistakes in the notation (ie. Bg4 when there is a piece on d7 and the bishop is on c8), and the annotations are sloppy and obviously just thrown together in order to try and lure beginners into buying the book as a reference because of it's mammoth size. If there ever was a patzer, Eric Schiller is it.
Originally posted by aenrkoI don't think you can justifiably call someone a patzer who's rated 2200 FIDE. That's about the same as Dan Heisman's rating. But the difference between these two people is that Heisman puts a lot of effort into his writings, while Schiller doesn't. Schiller just cranks out potboilers and datadumps and calls them books.
If there ever was a patzer, Eric Schiller is it.
But I agree with everyone here that, as a general guideline, you're best to stay away from anything with Schiller's name on it.
BTW, on a different note, various sources on the internet report that Schiller recently had a stroke. I do hope that he has a speedy recovery.
Originally posted by TainoBrothaWinning Chess Openings is a great book if you need to learn about openings.
Is this book any good? :
"Standard Chess Openings" by Eric Schiller, 1998Cardoza
Publishing, English Algebraic Notation, Softcover, 756pp., $24.95
It shows the major openings and the major lines to them as well as variations.