Jim West On Chess: Book Bazaar and Bizarre Book

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Book Bazaar and Bizarre Book

At PaperBackSwap, one of the books that you can exchange for is my second edition The Dynamic Philidor Counter-Gambit. Another of the books being offered is Philidor Countergambit, which not only has the same publisher as my first edition but almost the exact title. Apparently the authors, or editors, have the same last name as mine! Is this book for real?

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov