(Louis Blair) wrote in message . com...
Jestrada wrote (2003-12-30 19:20:38 PST):
Anyone familiar with the following title?
Coles Notes: Your Guide to Better Chess, by Roger
Langen (2002). Subtitle: For intermediate players:
Openings, gambits, codes, midgame tactics, endgame
strategy.

... any thoughts/impressions ...

I am not sure if it is relevant, but you might
want to look at Edward Winter's Chess Notes 2657
and 2689.

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/cnarchives04.pdf

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/cnarchives05.pdf

Thanks for the tip. These Chess Notes refer to a 1976 publication by
Coles Notes, entitled "Chess Strategy" by Frank Eagan, which was
really just a fraudulent reproduction of Capablanca's "Chess
Fundamentals."

I can assure you that the 2002 publication of Coles Notes (ISBN
0-7740-0638-2) is not the same, and is genuinely a book written by
Roger Langen (a former Canadian Chess Champion), called "Your Guide to
Better Chess".

Here's a newspaper article describing the release of the book with
further information about it:
http://www.chess.nfld.net/chess/news...nd%20Chess.htm

I am enjoying the book, and would appreciate any comments from others
about it, especially from those who are more knowledgeable about chess
than me!