Nick Aplin

This book exists in a rarefied genre of chess literature: the How to Beat Bob Loblaw book. The idea is simple and sound: to present a collection of games in which one of the greatest players to ever play the game lost and to analyze why. This book is a singularly annoying entry in this field. The authors write the book as though they were Kasparov (1st person) as opposed to providing insightful or non-insipid analysis. In their introduction they state that the concept was originally intended for a chess column, and it would have been much more suited to that amount of space. At 271 pages, this book stretches the "joke" about 270 pages too far.… (mehr)