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Looking at book's photos, I really amazed, that B.F. commented and wrote in a such strange way:
487 page. (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_538-FFQ4eT...ebullience.jpg)
He (somebody) provides the variation at move 12 then goes 10 moves (24.) and starts to give blunders (M 24. fg3 is a gross blunder). Looks weird to me.
It was never on the table! All you needed was some excuse not to show the book.
BTW, I WOULDN'T PUT $100 DOWN FOR A LOOK-SEE BECAUSE I WOULD THEN OWN IT AT THAT PRICE. One would never get the $100 back, but would, de facto, have bought it!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
What a joke this whole thing is. A book that is a piece of CRAP, someone who is desperately trying to legitimize it with fake reviews and fake postings and also trying to unload copies at $100 as a "deposit."
Louis, if you said you'd bring $3000 to me in person for chess book, I'd think you were a policeman. Maybe you scared her off. Why didn't you just agree to buy 1 in person?
Art, I emailed her during the ebay auction and several weeks after. The auction was for all books she had, not only one. At the time, she was not interested to sell only one book. The 30 books I was ready to buy was the very minimum she was willing to sell. At first, her husband was supposed to bring the books in Montreal, but for some reason changed his mind. Then came several nonsense claims (for example, most books were put to garbage in a shopping mall) before she asked me to send money by mail to a post office box. Anyway, if the book is real and you could get a copy, congratulations! But what a poor bookseller she was! She acted as if she was selling illegal stuff and her life was being threathened.
No, I will not buy a single copy for $400 or $600.
Art, I emailed her during the ebay auction and several weeks after. The auction was for all books she had, not only one. At the time, she was not interested to sell only one book. The 30 books I was ready to buy was the very minimum she was willing to sell. At first, her husband was supposed to bring the books in Montreal, but for some reason changed his mind. Then came several nonsense claims (for example, most books were put to garbage in a shopping mall) before she asked me to send money by mail to a post office box. Anyway, if the book is real and you could get a copy, congratulations! But what a poor bookseller she was! She acted as if she was selling illegal stuff and her life was being threathened.
No, I will not buy a single copy for $400 or $600.
Louis,
In my opinion, the whole thing is a scam...and you did well to keep your money in your jeans :)
I doubt that the fellow who recently posted here under the name of Art...is using his-her real name.
Guess my opinion on this book does not count? I validated Art's post, I have the book it is real, almost as large as a Bible!.many many hundreds of new annotations from Fischer, new unpublished pics, easy to follow figurine algebraic notation......new anecdotes from Bobby, corrections to the typos, ect. This is the real deal!!IMHO
I think you will have to try some other Bulletin Board where you might have more luck.
OK, more fakes may arrive, but I will not respond any further. Sufficient opinions above should convince even the most gullible that the book is a fake and not by Fischer.
It is obvious that someone put a lot of cash having this "book" printed and now he/she/they are squirming with the cost and no chance to sell it!
Sufficient opinions above should convince even the most gullible that the book is a fake and not by Fischer.
Using on GetTextbooks.com the ISBN given in the eBay auction, I obtained the following:
"ISBN-10: 0-9666673-0-1 (0966667301)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9666673-0-1 (9780966667301)
No copies of this book were found in stock from
over 100 online book stores and marketplaces."
Even a fake book not written by Fischer would find buyers... if it exists. My personal opinion is that it does not even exist.
Last edited by Louis Morin; Saturday, 17th January, 2009, 01:24 AM.
Although Ed Trice is renowned for creating fake accounts and IDs to post in various newsgroups and message boards, Bruce Towell is not one of them. Bruce is a real person and seems to have genuinely bought a couple of copies of this vanity press book for several hundred dollars apiece!
Labate's page on "My 61 Memorable Games" isn't the easiest one in the world to work your way through, but it's worth persevering as there are some real gems there, including:
1) An e-mail from Dan Heisman (who belongs to the same chess club as Trice) confirming that Ed Trice showed him a manuscript of "My 61 Memorable Games", claiming it had been sent to him by someone in Iceland.
2) A message posted by Bruce Towell saying that Ed Trice spoke to him about "this project" in Summer 2007.
3) An e-mail from Cathy Purdy of www.bookmasters.com confirming that Ed Trice asked her for a quote for printing "My 61 Memorable Games".
4) Numerous e-mails between Ed Trice and Edward Labate. If these are faked by Labate then you can be sure that Trice will have sued him by now!
That Ed Trice had "My 61 Memorable Games" published is a certainty, the only question is whether Fischer himself had anything to do with it. I have not seen a single shred of evidence to suggest that Fischer collaborated with Trice over this book and my opinion is that Trice is responsible for the whole thing himself.
Last edited by Jon D'Souza-Eva; Monday, 2nd February, 2009, 11:44 AM.
In my opinion the book exists, is written by Fischer and is weirdly distributed because of copyright and other legal issues.
I've had it for a week. It's hard to put down.
Some of the 2007 revisions I posted into
chessgames threads-->Keres, Robatsch, Petrosian.
I definitely believe it's written by Fischer however if it were a matter of whether the proceeds went to child support for Fischer's daughter Jinky, to Batsford's lawyers, or to the U.S. Treasury, then I would consider reconsidering;
otherwise, definitely.
fwiw this copy is second edition, printed in Iceland but no publisher or editor listed. I connected through Joshka.
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