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- From: schiller@whorf (Eric Schiller)
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- Subject: Re: Book Review: Oxford Companion to Chess
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.194703.27183@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:47:03 GMT
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- In article <9212292230.0.UUL1.3#20523@intercal.com> hwr@intercal.com
- (Hanon W. Russell) writes:
- >
- > THE OXFORD COMPANION TO CHESS, Second Edition, by David Hooper
- > and Kenneth Whyld, 1992 Oxford University Press, English
- > Algebraic Notation, 483pp., $35.00
- >
- > ***************************************************************
- >
- In general, I agree with the review and the recommendation that every
- chessplayer should own it. I would caution, however, that the list
- of opening names and variation names fails to provide sources or
- reasons for the names presented, many of which will be unfamiliar
- to American readers. While this is likely to be treated as
- authoritative, and indeed, I am using it as a guide is a project
- I am working on, it does not deserve such a status. It is really
- no more than one interesting proposal.
-
- Owners of the first edition will want to add this one, while
- keeping the older one, since not all the material is duplicated.
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- Eric Schiller schiller@sapir.uchicago.edu
- Dept of Linguistics, Univ. of Chicago schiller@whorf.uchicago.edu
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