As I told members of my chess club, this is probably all very basic
material. Your rating has to be pretty low to improve by "500%". 200 to
1000?

"Taylor Kingston" wrote in message
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On Oct 25, 11:44 am, "
wrote:
I wonder if the seller is not
offering anything original, but has merely repackaged old Fred. If so,
and these books have not yet passed into the public domain, copyright
violation may have occurred.

That's exactly what it is, a Reinfeld ripoff. It is all now public
domain so unfortunately this joker can't be sent to jail or fined. (I
obtained a copy and notified Mr. Reinfeld's heir, but apparently
nothing can be done.)

Ah, thanks for confirming my suspicions, and for notifying Reinfeld's
heir. (His son, I presume, who lives in Rochester NY, if I recall
correctly? I corresponded with him about 8 or 10 years ago.)
This sort of blatant plagiarism is unfortunately not uncommon in
chess. If no legal action can be taken in this case, at least readers
of rec.games.chess have been warned, and should avoid this sales pitch
like the plague.