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| Dec-12-15 | | zanzibar: <How to Make Money Selling Used Books [...]
What People Buy [...]
Special Interests [...]
GAMES AND HOBBIES. Chess books are excellent sellers, and books on cards, checkers, or party games are useful to have in stock. Bridge guides, however, back up on you unless you know the state of the art. Because hobbyists have stores of their own, writings on such subjects as coin and stamp collecting rarely sell (though handbooks on magic are OK).> http://www.howtoee.com/how-to-make-... This was an easy ref to find, but I remember an interview with the owner of our few remaining used book stores (I think Rodney's) saying the same thing. |
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Dec-12-15
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
Auspicious plans from <The Grand Piano>: chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #23919) <chessgames.com: <<<a chess book database or something like that?>>> That's exactly the idea. There's an excellent site for book lovers called goodreads.com but they aren't a natural fit for chess books. We could step in and fill that niche. So in addition to player pages, game pages, tournament pages, etc. now we could have a book page.> chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #23919) |
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| Dec-22-15 | | zanzibar: Here's a list of reference books used by the wonder EDO chess site of Rod Edwards: http://www.edochess.ca/Refs.Books.h...
Perhaps we can put a list of such worthy list in the intro for this page? (Or in a collection?). Do <JNPope> or <Edward Winter> maintain a bibliography? |
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Dec-22-15
 | | Annie K.: <Please give us your suggestions about new topics to post in the <ChessBookForum> Proifle,> I like this term, 'Proifle'; it sounds like Yiddish. I don't speak Yiddish, though. ;s |
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| Dec-22-15 | | Boomie: <Annie K.: I like this term, 'Proifle'; it sounds like Yiddish> Why do I feel compelled to schlep proifles? |
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| Dec-22-15 | | Boomie: Here's an extensive list of favorites from chess.com and Jeremy Silliman. All of the usual suspects are here as well as quite a few surprises. http://www.chess.com/article/view/t... |
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| Dec-23-15 | | zanzibar: <Boomie> That's a very nice collection of lists - interesting to compare and contrast the various choices. Interesting that almost no mention of Opening books appears throughout. |
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Dec-24-15
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Annie> I hadn't thought about this habit of calling everyone's bio a "profile" before. Is there really a Yiddish idiom that's similar?
If you have any suggestions about how to update our profile, please let us know! |
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Dec-24-15
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<z> Merry Christmas! I believe <paris attack> has one of the most extensive collections of opening books in existence. He may be the person best suited to find us a list. We should include these new lists in the updated profile, if we ever get around to actually updating it. Please post any suggestions you may have about what to put in our updates profile? |
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| Dec-24-15 | | Boomie: <jessicafischerqueen> Notice the spelling of "proifle" in Annie's post. |
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| Dec-24-15 | | Boomie: <Zanzibar: no mention of Opening books appears> Yes. That is a surprise. The listers are top rated writers and teachers so we should consider why they have excluded opening books. Perhaps it's as my friend advised me once, "Play ideas, not moves." Or maybe it's just that opening books are not nearly as interesting as an autobiographical work by somebody like Tal or Keres. |
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| Dec-24-15 | | parisattack: <jessicafischerqueen:
Auspicious plans from <The Grand Piano>:chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #23919)
<chessgames.com: <<<a chess book database or something like that?>>> That's exactly the idea. There's an excellent site for book lovers called goodreads.com but they aren't a natural fit for chess books. We could step in and fill that niche. So in addition to player pages, game pages, tournament pages, etc. now we could have a book page.> chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #23919)>
There are a couple of dozen chess book bibliographies in print. Perhaps the core volumes being:
Betts – An Annotated Bibliography of Works in the English Language 1850-1968 Cleveland Public Library – John G. White Collection
De Felice – Chess Periodicals: An Annotated International Bibliography 1836-2008 Linde - Bibliotheca Van der Linde
Whyld – Chess Literature in English before 1850
The Cleveland I think is now online in a searchable DB. The books themselves are two large folio size volumes with organized images of catalog cards. Other sources: Christie’s occasionally has chess book auctions - there are several catalogs of same, offer sheets from well-known booksellers such as Brandreth, Kramer, Buschke, and Uno Linde, catalogs of major collections such as Delucia. I personally do not know of anything comprehensive done since the ‘British Invasion’ in the late 1960s. A nice New Years project for <TheFocus> - ‘An Annotated Bibliography of Works in the English Language 1969-2015.’ |
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| Dec-24-15 | | TheFocus: <parisattack> Per our earlier discussion: have you seen the Breyer book by Bottlik? <GYULA BREYER - SEIN LEBEN, WERK UND SCHAFFER FÜR DIE ERNEUERUNG DES SCHACHS, I. Bottlik, Unterhaching, 1999. p, mint, 179p. A very nice book with biography and annotated games. Also includes some articles of his from various sources.> |
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Dec-24-15
| | Annie K.: <Jess> well, I consider bios and profiles interchangeable too. A proifle, however, is a whole 'nuther... err, whatever it is. ;s |
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Dec-25-15
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Annie> Good point. But can we say that proifles and bois are equally interchangeable? |
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Dec-25-15
| | Annie K.: That would certainly narrow down the possibilities on what a proifle might be, anyways! :) |
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| Dec-25-15 | | Boomie: Wasn't there an old Star Trek episode called "The Problem With Proifles"? |
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| Dec-31-15 | | ifairclough: Hello,
Can anyone please identify the person named IM Vladimir Ivanov who is listed in the front of the book "Jose Raul Capablanca II: Games 1925-1929"? There are numerous people with that name, or a variant thereof. If you can help with this, please write to me at ifairclo@gmu.edu. Please include links to any pages that have biographical information such as dates of birth and/or death. My thanks to Daniel Freeman, webmaster, Chessgames.com for referring me to this forum. Sincerely - Ian
Ian Fairclough
Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian
George Mason University Libraries
ifairclo@gmu.edu |
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| Jan-01-16 | | Paint My Dragon: <ifairclough> There is only one IM (International Master) Vladimir Ivanov that I am aware of. He is listed on the records of chess governing body FIDE, on their website. Both FIDE and Jeremy Gaige (Gaige's 'Chess Personalia' being the most comprehensive book for tracking available details of chess players) agree that his middle name is Ivanovich. They also agree that he was born in 1944. That is all the information that appears to be readily available at a glance. |
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| Jan-02-16 | | Boomie: Has anyone written a response to Ian Fairclough's question? Notice that he asked for an email response. This is a special case that I think we should complete. |
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| Jan-02-16 | | hms123: <Boomie>
I emailed him just now. |
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Jan-02-16
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Nice work <Book Editors>. It took 10 years, but finally we have vindicated our strategy of "hiring" 300 moderators for this forum. They laughed at us!
But no more... |
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| Jan-03-16 | | Paint My Dragon: Reminds me of the old Bob Monkhouse joke ...
"As a youngster, people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. A comedian, I replied. Well they laughed at me then, but they aren't laughing any more". |
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| Jan-03-16 | | hms123: I heard back from <Ian> Thank you. I need the information I requested to do part of my job, as part of the Name Authority Cooperative Project, coordinated by the Library of Congress. Here are some other links I found for chess players called Vladimir Ivanov
http://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2015...
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?...
http://uschessleague.com/results.ph...
I'm not familiar with negotiating forums like this, nor do I know much about chess grand masters, international masters - I'm not sure which ranks higher. But I need an authoritative source, including the year of birth, for the person in this book. And if I try but get this wrong, then misinformation will proliferate, because people concerned will take my word for whatever I promulgate. It's a tricky situation. It's better not to try than to do a botched job. Please feel free to forward this message as appropriate. I'm grateful to you for recognizing my need. Sincerely - Ian
Ian Fairclough
Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian
George Mason University Libraries
ifairclo@gmu.edu |
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| Jan-03-16 | | Paint My Dragon: Thanks <hms123> for acting as intermediary. Nothing in Ian's links contradict or bring into question the voracity of my previous answer. If he doesn't mind me saying, his links resemble a random Google 'stab in the dark', and for sure, that is the very route to the botched job he wants to avoid. The third link doesn't even mention Vladimir Ivanov, as far as I can tell. In truth, the only 'tablets of stone' course of action would be to chase the original source; that is, write to the publisher 'Chess Stars' and ask them for more precise details, or an address where Mr Ivanov can be contacted. |
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