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Old October 16th 05, 04:19 PM
Taylor Kingston
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Default Another Schiller Gaffe


In the rgcp thread "Schiller, Westerinen and Myers" I examined
Eric Schiller's excuses for recommending a book that does not exist
as the "best" on the Nimzovich Defense, presenting testimony from
GM Heikki Westerinen and NM Hugh Myers. In my recent correspondence
with Myers, he pointed out another gaffe by Schiller that can only be
characterized as bare-faced mendacity or utter ineptitude.
In the 1987 edition of "Unorthodox Chess Openings" (the same book
in which Schiller recommended the non-existent book), there is a
discussion of the Myers Gambit in the English Opening: 1.c4 g5 2.d4
Bg7. For the rest of the story, I quote from Myers' book "A Chess
Explorer" page 102:

Then resurrecting the dispute about 1.c4 g5 2.d4 Bg7, [Schiller and
Benjamin] ... dared to call a move "stupid" which "Myers gives"
-- without saying that in Myers Openings Bulletin #27, in an article
that I didn't write, it was clearly stated that the move which they
called 'stupid' was in analysis by *_Schiller_*!

So we have an interesting situation: either Schiller lied in UCO
trying to make Myers look bad, or Schiller has such a poor memory that
he does not remember what he himself has written, and calls his own
analysis "stupid" while blaming someone else. This from the man
Cardoza publishing calls "the world's leading writer on chess
openings." And so it goes.

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