Does anyone even argue that it's not a fraud now anyway?>

Yes, some people (either because they're interested parties or delusional fools) are still making arguments that it was written by Fischer....And the interested parties are still trying to sell the book, and will probably continue to do so for as long as they can

The way I see it, the only way to thwart them for good is to post it for free on the net.

Then we can attach the email from Einar Einarsson about where the cover photo came from, etc.....We could link the chessbase articles where Fischer denied still playing the "old chess" and EVER playing blitz on the internet

AND we can compare Fischer's ACTUAL writing style (in his book and other writings) to that wordy garbage

Anybody want to set some?

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. -

Nope. The way you destroy information, legit or otherwise, is bury it. Let's say someone scans the fakebook and puts it online.

People will read it. The majority of the people that read it realize it's a hoax. A small minority of people won't. These are the people that will buy the book. They'll talk about it to other people, who in turn will buy the book. Nomatter what the intent, disseminating the book generate sales.

Even though he didn't write it. Or he wrote almost none of it.

<Nigel Short> talked about this on his page a while ago.

I for example read a chess book (in a book store- it was very short) "by Nigel Short" .

It was an introduction for beginners.

So it showed the moves, the rules, and a few basic strategies.

<Nigel> himself wrote virtually none of it- maybe a sentence or two.

But he <did> authorize the use of his name.

And he was paid, same as Bobby was paid for <Bobby F. Teaches Chess>.

Unless I've got my facts wrong about the <Bobby teaches book>.

For sure <Nigel> rented his name for the other book I"m talking about.

This is a grey area that might be filed under the "buyer be informed" rather than the "buyer beware" category.

Not actually a criminal fraud- since no laws broken, etc.

This is truly a wider grey area, and not just for chess books. It's legal to hire a 'ghost writer' and not even admit on the book itself that a ghost writer was involved.

Ie- "Greg Brady's Biography" was definitely authorized by him, but he sure didn't write it.

But you kind of have to figure this out on your own.

(It's rumored that <Moby Dick> was in fact entirely ghost written by a "Mrs. Gaansevoort", and that Melville paid her tuppence for the effort).

http://my61fraud.blogspot.com/

http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/...

Jen Shahade came by where I was sitting when I had the books on my table. She looked surprised to see it. We chatted for a few minutes about it as she leafed through a copy before she left the hotel last evening.

Ed Trice: <PinnedPiece: The damning evidence has slowly firmed up, even while you have staggered determinedly further into the quicksand.>

<That's only if you believe those spoofed emails are legitimate. I'm not the one who sold everything I own for pennies on the dollar, sold my house, then moved back near my home town. That was Eddie Labate. I can only guess the forgery charge is finally catching up to him.>

<If anyone wants to read the emails that Dr. Frank Brady sent to me where he identified RiverBeast on chessgames.com as the person who asked him THE SAME EXACT QUESTION IN PERSON as was worded in one of the spoofed emails which I did not send, just send me an email and I will foward them to you.>

<My last email ever received from Einar Einarsson was 3 months after the other spoofed "angry email" was supposedly sent. So why would Einar be mad at me in the fall of 2007 then send me another email 3 months later, which was also sent to Fridrik Olafsson and Lothar Schmid?>

<The answer: the "angry" email was never sent to me.>

<You seem to forget the Evans article that appeared first in Chess Life. The girl he was talking to, from Canada, predicted Fischer's death. As people have often quoted on here, even I thought he was getting better. So did Pal Benko, who spoke with him in December 2007.>

<The point being, Fischer took a sudden bad turn. He told only a few people in his inner circle, the girl with whom he had the baby was one of them, and she was friends with the girl running the auction in Canada. Einar Einarsson was on Fischer's bad side at the end, despite what he would have you believe. He was barred from attending the Fischer funeral, and with reason.>

<You can't just pass over this one very crucial fact. There was a girl, in Canada, running an auction, and she was in very close contact with Fischer.>

<She sent that "last question" to Evans, from Bobby himself. There can be no denying the reason for it, Fischer was dying and he wanted to say goodbye. There can be no denying it was cryptic and contained special information only Fischer and Evans would recognize.>

<And the timing was dead on, pardon the pun.

A girl was in close contact with Fischer, and she was selling his books.

There's no other explanation.>

<Robert Hübner: "Materialien zu Fischers Partien" (roughly <Materials to Fischer's games>, 235 pages)>, where he is analysing <the quality of Fischer's M60MG annotations> and thereafter classifying its mis-evaluations and mistakes.

Finally he added/analysed a <61st game>: Fischer vs Huebner, 1970

This would be the perfect avatar for this page:

<JB><chancho> Keep in mind you have entered fantasyland here.

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<< Ed Trice: <PinnedPiece> By your last statement, are you claiming while you haven't read the book, you know more than International Master Lawrence Day, who has read the book? A simple yes or no will suffice.

Jul-02-09
Ed Trice: <PinnedPiece> If you hold to your belief, state your full name, the city where you live, and post on here exactly who you think wrote the book. If you're telling the truth, you have nothing to worry about, right?

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Why should I swing my racket when the ball is in your court? That's not how I was taught to play.

If you have a different rule book, type it out in full and post it clearly on a page where others can comment.

Can you do this?

A simple yes or no will suffice.

If the emails were proved to be spoofed, we would indeed be in a vast mystery land, with you as the principal world promoter of the book, and yet with links so gauzy and so indistinct, the light so poor, one is reminded of the web of a spider stretching between forest trees, with us innocent birds flitting along, you waiting...waiting...until:

http://thepirata.com/wp-content/upl...

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