Chess Strategy
Chess Strategy
This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare’s finesse to Oscar Wilde’s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim’s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the ma
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How not to adapt a book for the Kindle….,
The book itself has been fairly reviewed by others; I shall simply comment on the Kindle version. It appears that the original online version of the text was prepared “back in the day” when the VT-100 (or perhaps the Xterm) was the normal output device. The text was scanned or typed as ASCII, and all 167 of the chess board diagrams were carefully rendered as ASCII line drawings. Unfortunately, this kind of diagram requires the use of a constant-width font. The Kindle version is rendered in a nicely kerned Times Roman, or similar, and as a result the diagrams are unreadable. (It would be nice to know if the Kindle actually supports the use of fixed-width fonts for non-HTML content.)
I’d like to get a decent chess book for my Kindle, with some annotated games from the last 150 years. This isn’t it.
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|Get the ebook from Project Gutenberg instead,
As was noted in another review, this was not formatted for the Kindle. It’s impossible to read the chess diagrams. However, you can get this ebook for free from Project Gutenberg as a .txt file. And you can read it on your PC (but not with the Kindle PC software). All the chess diagrams line up perfectly.
I had to give this title 1 star because it is unreadable on the Kindle. And if you can’t read a book, really there is no other rating to give it.
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|Simply Unreadable,
Others have said it, but the Kindle version is terrible. The inability to see the board positions means that I couldn’t just read. But the diagrams are so messed that even trying to set one up is nearly impossible. Save yourself the frustration.
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