An interesting thread from the past started with the question from Peter McKillop to Larry Bevand in a July 11, 2011 ChessTalk:
Do you still have those two books on Petrosian’s career that I was drooling over at the 1993 Canadian Open?
The answer was that they were
The Games of Tigran Petrosian Volume 1 1942-1965
and
The Games of Tigran Petrosian Volume 2 1966-1983
and they just had been reprinted by Sam Sloan's ISHI press
Another thread (Feb. 19,2013) discussed possible copyright violations by Sam Sloan and his Ishi Press.
For me, I was most interested in the apparent quality of the two Eduard Shekhtman volumes and whether they were the definitive compilation of Petrosian games and, of course, getting them.
Well, coming to the present, the two volumes in the Pergammon 1991 edition came up for auction on Saturday, June 22 at the respected Klittich-Pfankuch Auction House in Braunschweig. The pair went for 200 euro, which is $276 today.
Ah, if I only had bought several sets in 1991 and kept them… But then, I have similarly agonized about buying stock shares in Apple twenty years ago!
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See Katalog zur 64.Auktion Item 940
http://www.klittich-pfankuch.de/
For the books’ long-term value, there is a contemporary review by Edward Winter at:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/petrosian.html
Do you still have those two books on Petrosian’s career that I was drooling over at the 1993 Canadian Open?
The answer was that they were
The Games of Tigran Petrosian Volume 1 1942-1965
and
The Games of Tigran Petrosian Volume 2 1966-1983
and they just had been reprinted by Sam Sloan's ISHI press
Another thread (Feb. 19,2013) discussed possible copyright violations by Sam Sloan and his Ishi Press.
For me, I was most interested in the apparent quality of the two Eduard Shekhtman volumes and whether they were the definitive compilation of Petrosian games and, of course, getting them.
Well, coming to the present, the two volumes in the Pergammon 1991 edition came up for auction on Saturday, June 22 at the respected Klittich-Pfankuch Auction House in Braunschweig. The pair went for 200 euro, which is $276 today.
Ah, if I only had bought several sets in 1991 and kept them… But then, I have similarly agonized about buying stock shares in Apple twenty years ago!
+++++++++++++++
See Katalog zur 64.Auktion Item 940
http://www.klittich-pfankuch.de/
For the books’ long-term value, there is a contemporary review by Edward Winter at:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/petrosian.html
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