If you don't have a reputation as a successful author or player, you can't expect many people to buy your book.Īnd he surely can't expect people to buy his book if he has a reputation as a pompous keyboard warrior. When My 60 Memorable Games was published, Fischer didn't have a reputation as a chess book author but people knew he was one of the world's best players. If one doesn't have a reputation through his writing, he needs to have established his credibility through his playing. He had credibility because he wrote some excellent chess books that were among the biggest selling of all time. Irving Chernev wasn't a grandmaster but he was one of the most successful authors of chess books (if not the most successful). One doesn't need to be a grandmaster in order have credibility as a chess book author. And I certainly wouldn't buy a diamond if I didn't know what it was worth. If I found a diamond in a waste bin, of course I would question its value. If you would not, then you are simply very naive at the least. Or, a lingot of gold, would you accept a lingot of gold, fetched by someone who is not a goldsmith? When you find a diamond in a waste bin, do you question its credentials? That is a lot of time for me, currently.īragadoccio or not bragadoccio, the book is worth what it is worth. To get the GM title, you should play in at least 10 tournaments in the course of one or 2 years.
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