jr wrote:
* An instant book appeared soon after the match ended. Did it occur to
you, GM Keene, that this is PRECISELY THE PROBLEM? * (Skeptic)

Did it ever occur to you, Mr. Pipel, that it is almost impossible
to earn a living from chess and that instant books are a cash cow
that pay the rent for chess pros?

Like your hero Edward Winter, you guys make mountains out of
tpos and wrong dates which are not fundamental errors (as Keene
pointed out). Often these are not even the fault of the authors who
don't always see the final proofs before articles go to press.

Many instant books appeared after Fischer-Spassky in 1972
(Gligoric, Reshevsky, etc.) which outsold more serious works
that hit the market later by Byrne, Evans, etc.

* But the whole point of good writing, or good analysis, is to take
thetrouble to make sure the analysis is not 80% or 90% correct,
but 100%correct, or at least as close to that as possible. Kramnik
took careand effort to do so. You couldn't be bothered.* (Skeptic)

Kramnik's notes came out much later in New In Chess which
pays a fraction of what instant books bring in. If you want 100%
perfection, leave the real world and try living on another planet.

"There is hardly a product of our culture that someone cannot make a
little worse and sell for a little less, and the one who puts price
above all other considerations is the natural prey of this man." -
John Ruskin