Jim West On Chess: Self-published Chess Books

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Self-published Chess Books

Blogger Atomic Patzer has sent me an e-mail regarding a Printing On Demand (POD) website http://www.lulu.com/ where authors can self-publish.

Two chess books that Atomic Patzer has purchased on-line from Lulu are Chess is a Struggle by Neil Sullivan and The Fascinating Reti Gambit by Thomas Johansson.

"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