Taylor Kingston wrote:
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.

My favorite Schiller gaffe is analytical in nature, and shows just what
a careless copier he is. In his Gambit Opening Repertoire for White, he
includes the following game, with his notes:

Sawyer,T - Snapstys,V [C00]
Chaturanga CC Hatboro, 1988

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Be3 dxe4 4.Nd2 Nf6 5.f3 exf3 6.Ngxf3 Be7 7.Bd3 b6
8.0-0 Bb7 9.Bg5 0-0 10.Qe1 Nc6 11.c3 Ne8

So far so good.

12.Qh4

Not so good. I remember purchasing the book and rushing home to study
it. As a student of Dan Heisman, I found myself looking at this
position and asking, "Doesn't White have better?" (Yes Dan, I DID learn
something from you!) And after about 30 seconds I asked, "Doesn't White
have the Greek Gift sacrifice?"

For those readers who are 'nearly an IM 2450', the winning move was
12.Bxh7+. If 12 ...Kxh7 (12...Kh8 13.Qh4 Bxg5 14.Nxg5 Qxg5 15.Qxg5
Kxh7) 13.Qh4+ Kg8 (13...Kg6 leads to mate) 14.Bxe7 Qxe7 15.Ng5 Qxg5
16.Qxg5

Schiller didn't include any of the analysis I've given. The possible
reason he didn't see the mate was that the volume he lifted the game
from, Tim Sawyer's Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Keybook, didn't annotate the
game but merely included it as a bare gamescore. How Schiller,
reputedly a master player, could miss a Greek gift if he was paying
attention is beyond me. Sawyer, who actually played the game, has an
excuse for missing the move during play; it was a five minute game.

The actual game continued:

12...h6 13.Ne4 Bxg5 14.Nexg5 Nf6 15.Rae1 Re8 16.Ne5 Nxe5 17.Rxe5 hxg5
18.Rxg5 Kf8 19.Rxg7 Kxg7 20.Qg5+ Kf8 21.Rxf6 Qd5 22.Rxf7+ Kxf7 23.Bg6+
Kg7 24.Bf5+ Kf7 25.Bg6+ ½-½

This was the last Schiller book I purchased. I got rid of it soon after.