THE WAR AGAINST SCHILLER

The most recent error alleged against Eric
Schiller is that he forgot analysis that he himself
had written. NM Taylor Kingston, the 1800-rated guy
who lied about being 2300+ ELO, is banking on most
of you having little knowledge of just how difficult
most grandmasters, let alone others, find chess to be.

NM Kingston figures that most of you are unaware
that the errors alleged against Eric Schiller, a true
2300-region ELO master, occur across 100 or so books
-- an enormous body of work.

He figures most of you are unaware that, say, a Gligoric
forgot his own analysis and so have grandmasters playing
only ONE game, their own after adjournment. Keres, one of the
greatest of all adjournment analysts, forgot what he
analyzed. Botvinnik in pregame analysis overlooked a
one-mover that Bobby saw instantly. Portisch could
not see the stock Bxh7+ sacrifice and lost to
Donner. Mieses published analysis missing a mate on
the move, and he wrote only a handful of books.

The war against Eric Schiller is in defense of
ChessCafe, which publishes Taylor Kingston and bans
Mr. Schiller's work, just as it banned books by Keene
and Evans until recently. The memoir that Arnold Denker
and I wrote, though in print and though winning the ACF
and Cramer book of the year award in 1996, is also banned.
So are the two instructional volumes that I penned with Lev Alburt.

The issue is not whether Eric Schiller commits
errors. He does. Indeed, he must. Chess is not yet
susceptible to full mastery. The issue is the
incidence of analytical error as opposed to other
authors, and no study has been presented here to
indicate that Schiller is much better or worse than others.