Thanks Michael.MikeB wrote:I like your book Lyudmil , anyone just getting into chess programming should buy it, the SF development team probably think they are too far advanced to get anything out of it, but I agree with Ed, any chess programmer should take a look, and should be able get a nugget or two or more. It's little bit over the top for anyone getting into chess - it's more like a school text book, and most people do not like to work that hard to get better at something. The only problem is that the universe of people that want to program chess for fun in the universe is very small. Even the general chess book world is niche market with authors dominated by well known GM's and the like. For me personally , I appreciate the larger print - but then I'm in my 60's. It would a be nice to have epd file of all the diagrams in your book if available.Lyudmil Tsvetkov wrote:Currently, the option for purchasing 'The Secret of Chess' from my site via Paypal is disabled, and I will update the site in a while.
So that the only option now is Amazon(paperbacks and ebooks):
I must say, that I am more or less happy with Amazon, in general they are doing what they say.
On the other hand, PayPal proved to be simply crooks.
3 months on, I have to ascertain there is not much feedback/interest in my book. I see 3 possible causes for this:
1.) The book is bad
2.) People can't understand it
3.) The book is written in high style/high knowledge style, different from traditional conceptions, and most people prefer low knowledge/routine instead of high knowledge
For myself, I am not entirely clear what the main cause is.
What do you think?
I'm thinking about buying your other book as well at some point in the future.
Later,
Michael
I appreciate your stance and support at the moment.
We have quarreled a bit in the past, but then you used to make too frequently MB versions 30 elo stronger than current SF dev.
I hope you get something from it for MB, but I guess at this level it is more about inherent redundancies in the code rather than anything else(SF, for example, will never make anything useful out of baclward lagorithms described in the book, for the simple reason that they have very strange definitions of backward pawns).
I understand your concerns about fens, however the diagrams were meant just as illustrations to the specific terms.
A lot of work to do, I will think what I can improve, in the meantime I am happy someone is still enjoying it.
