Saturday, October 24, 2009

Bad book covers VIII


Chess Rules of Thumb, Alburt and Lawrence, Chess Information and Research Center, 2003


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4 comments:

Morgan Daniels said...

See CN 3480: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter02.html

Anonymous said...

Ha ha - that beats Miles' review of the Schiller book for economy.

Angus

Anonymous said...

I've got the book
I like the cover

George

Tom Chivers said...

It's the superimposition of the chess board on the thumb that ruins the cover - so simple, so devastating. I've seen another Alburt book which hurt my eyes similarly.