But combination books, including the referenced encyclopedia, have NEVER cited publication sources for each position. NEVER. I challenge any critic to show an example where the author did. I cited players and event, which is more than some do.

Winter just wanted to attack me, but my publisher had a good laugh at this "plagarism" charge. We could have sued him but that is not my style. He is just a termite, not worth the effort.

I met <ES> briefly in Hawaii and he seemed like a very nice person.

I also like Winters' works (I have been cited several times on Chess Notes), but... Winters is Winters.

Each person deserves their respect for their contributions to chess.

My name is not Winters, it is Winter. W-I-N-T-E-R. I can't believe you could make such a gross error! this proves you know nothing about chess!!

<I hope you all have notice his blatant bias against Jews which underlies all of his writing, the goal of which is to try to rewrite chess history to reduce the accomplishments of anyone with Jewish connections and elevate non-Jews. That's his clear motivation and you must notice that all of his usual targets share that characteristic.>

I respectfully disagree. I don't think Keene is Jewish and as far as I can tell, he gets the harshest Winter.

I also think that Winter wrote that the author of the worst chess book ever was either Indian of Pakistani.

I've never read anything of his disparaging the legacies of Nimzowitsch, Botvinnik, Steinitz, although he has been very critical of Kasparov's writing, and Fine's psychoanalysis, but even in those cases, I don't think he's attacked their chess careers.

Irritatingly yours,
Edward Winter>

Good to hear it. But I know a man who does. We'll see.

<The point of my book was to test computer analysis of combinations, which were drawn from many sources.>

According to an Amazon review:

<Although it is hard to imagine a totally worthless book on chess combinations, this book comes very close. The author gives no solutions to the combinations, only the first move of each. Space supposedly does not permit the author to give full solutions, but space never stopped other authors of similar books. M. K. Blokh's "The Art of Combination" has more combinations, complete solutions and a lower price than Schiller's book, as can be said for nearly every other book on chess combinations.>

So let's get this straight. Am I correct in thinking that this is a puzzle book without proper solutions and the reader is expected to computer analyse them instead? What could have possessed you to undertake such a ridiculous project?

Another Amazon review states:

<Rather, he simply copied, without credit, the 1980 book "Encyclopedia of Chess Middlegames". For example, out of 132 positions in Schiller's book covering 1900-1945, all but a half-dozen are in the "Encyclopedia"; so are all 13 positions from 1958, etc.>

How many sources did you say?

<Winter just wanted to attack me, but my publisher had a good laugh at this "plagarism" charge.>

Is that <Jim Eades> of Hypermodern Press? It went bust, didn't it?

<He is just a termite, not worth the effort.>

An interesting piece of imagery.

<I hope you all have notice his blatant bias against Jews which underlies all of his writing, the goal of which is to try to rewrite chess history to reduce the accomplishments of anyone with Jewish connections and elevate non-Jews. >

As I wrote before, Mr. Winter is the foremost chess historian of our time and deserves his meticulous reputation, yet he seems to enjoy proving people wrong even more than documenting the truth, and this oneupmanship contest is probably his foremost motivation. You may be 100% correct about his particular slant, yet please choose your words carefully as you honestly don't need more conflict right now. I also suspect he visits here at times, primarily to check up on you and Mr. Keene. =)

And if he isn't? But you're only concerned about Eric's health, am I right?

As for the other issues, I remind everyone that Ray Keene is married to the wonderful Annette Goodman and is David Levy's brother-in-law.

Further, note that Winter cherry-picks the years. The more recent examples were not in ECM but were found in magazines. I felt that any competent chessplayer could work out details given the key move. If I was wrong I deserve criticism on that count. That would be legit.

Surely you understand that Wesley So fans violated the Posting Guidelines on my player page and my chessforum many times, yet these posts are read everywhere. If this is how you want the world to see Wesley So, there you go.

You aligned with Eric? Where were you when Eric maligned FIDE President Florencio Campomanes after the latter's death?

Campo, as we called him, was an honorable man that's why he became the President of FIDE. Now, what is the achievement of Eric? What is he trying to proved? That's weird.

You do not like me attacking Eric but you like Eric attacking the President? Weird again.

Well, the same feathers flock together. You and Eric are just the same, Weird further.

Now you are bringing in others who are innocent. Weird moreover.

You are just like a croaking toad jumping into an empty swimming pool.

Perhaps I will elect you Vice-President to the President Eric of the Contra-Bidas. At least Eric will not get jealous being the President of the Contra-Bida group.

This is between you and dunkenchess.
We are not interested in the issue.