Re: Weirdest chess improvement suggestion?

[samsloan]

On Jan 23, 2:32 pm, William Hyde <wthyde1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 8:19 pm, Louis Blair <lb...@blackburn.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 9, 2:29 pm, William Hyde
> > <wthyde1...@gmail.com> wrote
> > 7 ...
> > 7 Sidney Bernstein wrote that during
> > 7 his first chess career, he ...
> > _
> > _
> > I just wanted to thank you for your
> > interesting note.
>
> I found this in his book, "My 50 years at the chessboard".
>
> It is a slim volume with some discussion of his career in chess.  If
> anyone is thinking of buying it to play over the games, note that
> Bernstein does not for some reason believe in diagrams, so there are
> none in  the book.  As I am lazy enough that I prefer not to use a
> chessboard when playing over games, but not good enough to follow an
> entire game in my head, I still haven't looked at these games, though
> I've been told he was an original player and there are some gems in
> there.
>
> William Hyde

It seems that you are not aware that I have reprinted this book. In my
reprint I have included all the games in standard Algebraic with the
concluding diagram in the back.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/product.aspx?ISBN=0923891307

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891307

It is not a big seller, nor did I expect it to be. I reprinted the
book because Sidney Bernstein was a friend.

Sam Sloan