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Chandler, On the Bar Stool
by Geoff Chandler

All opening books are a rip off.

Opening Books are a con.

Every opening book is part of major scam that has been
going on for far too long.

Who is in on it?  Everyone.

Anand, Kramnik, Carlsen, Short, Topolov…
Has anybody ever met one of these guys?  No.
Neither have I.  They simply do not exist.

The publishing companies get together and invent these games
played by these fictitious people to sell their poxy opening books.

Did you really think that the Kasparov they invented could not beat
Kramnik’s Berlin Defence?  Of course he could.

But in the interest of commerce and to make a fast buck they had this
Kasparov chap fail and sold hundreds of thousands of opening books
on the Berlin Defence.
The gumless dims fall for it every time.

“But I’ve seen pictures of these players.”

So have I.  This is all part of the scam.  They are bit part actors.

Kasparov is really George Nelson and when not acting works in a call centre
in Swindon.  Kramnik is a Farmer, Anand keeps wicket for a small cricket
team in India and Carlson is really a 21 years old girl called Susie Williams.
I bet you never knew that.

Look at the last world title match.  Anand the wicket keeper v Topolov
(whose day job is selling toasters from door to door).

Have you seen so many Catalans before?
Did the thought ‘Why?’ not cross your tiny little mind.

I’ll tell you why.
They had hundreds of thousands of unsold copies of the Catalan in
their secret warehouses so they fabricated these games to sell the Catalan
opening books to the mugs.

Carlsen v Anand will be all about the French Defence because it’s been
a couple of years since they had a run on that opening.

The games are getting invented as I type this.
Anand and Carlson will be given the games to memorise and reproduce.
The bonus is that they actually sell tickets so dopes can watch the actors
recreate these games.
The whole thing is just one big hilarious racket.

“Wait…if these openings are so bad then how computers have not bust them?”

Because the computers companies are in on the scam as well!

Do you really honestly think that a souped up pocket calculator could 
beat a real Grandmaster at Chess?

The beauty of it is, they don’t have to.
All they have to do is beat the chumps who buy them.

How do these clowns know how bad these thing really are.
It can beat them and they are told it can beat a Grandmaster.
(The thing will even come with a collection of fabricated games
where it has been beaten a load of fictitious GM’s.)

They see in print that George Nelson, sorry Kasparov, lost to a computer so
they believe these things are good.
They are naff and companies in on the scam are making millions of bucks
every year from the glum dipsticks who buy them thinking they have something good.

“Wait a minute Geoff, eventually the people who buy the books and the
computers will get better and then discover the scam.”

How are they going to get better?

The books they get sold are naff, they are actually written so the student
will never improve.  And the computers are totally useless to them.

It’s the perfect con.

Sell them ‘utter crap’ under the pretence it will make them good
chess players when the plain and simple truth is it won’t.

Do you really think a publishing company would actually produce a good
chess book that will really help players improve?

They would be like cutting their own throats.

Think about it.

Ah finished…your round.

Geoff


Chandler, On the Loose

 

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