Friday, January 23, 2015

Bad book covers XXXIII


Le bond du tigre au-delà 1600 Elo, volume 1, Jussupow, 2012.

[Thanks to Niall Doran]
[Bad book covers index]

7 comments:

Andrew Gelman said...

That one's so bad it's good, I'd say.

an ordinary chessplayer said...

Pawns on f8 and h6?

ejh said...

More pawns on the board than a cat would normally permit.

Anonymous said...

And I thought the original german cover were bad …
http://www.euroschach.de/images/product_images/info_images/artur-jussupow--tigersprung-auf-dwz-1500---band-1_0.jpg

Phille

Jon H said...

Can't wait to see the cover to volume 2...

Anonymous said...

Furthermore, there is one spelling and one grammatical mistake in the seven words long title. Amazing! (English is not my native tongue. French is. Sorry for my spelling and/or my grammatical mistakes. Fnord)

Jon H said...


Actually, Volume 2 is disappointingly similar to Volume 1. Shame that they wasted such a golden opportunity for another slap-dash design:
http://www.toutpourlesechecs.com/le-bond-du-tigre-vol-2-c2x14021150