Inspired by Tony Miles’ famous two-word book review, several readers have offered suggestions for chess books that should never be written. There are more on Kingpin’s Facebook page.
They say that everyone has a crap book in them, so please send us your ideas!
(Mig Greengard)
My Great Processors
by Deep Blue
(Jon Levitt)
Requiem: the Art of Chessplayer Obituary
by N. Short
Ray Keene’s Best Chess Annotations
by Byron Jacobs
(Jon Levitt)
The Joys of Publishing Other People’s Research
(Olimpiu Urcan)
Beam Me Up Scotty! A Buddhist Reflects
by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
(Colin Crouch)
In His Own Words: Selected Journalism of Ray Keene
(Tom Chivers)
A Killer Opening Repertoire for Black, Vol.19: The Berlin Defence
by Vladimir Kramnik
How, One Lazy Afternoon, I Invented Chess
by S. Reuben
(David Robertson)
Chesss Grdnmasteres in Profil
(Olimpiu Urcan)
(Sarah Hurst)
Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying To Me?
The Interviews of Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam
(Justin Horton)
How I Won the World Correspondence Chess Championship
by Jeroen Piket, with a foreword by Tim Krabbé
(Mark Thornton)
The Inner Shame: How Women Shouldn’t Dress in Chess
(Justin Horton)
(Sarah Hurst)
Plunder, Prey, Paste: The Idiot’s Guide to Unscrupulous Chess Journalism
by Susan Polgar and Paul Truong
(Olimpiu Urcan)
Chess Patriarchy: The False Consciousness of the So-Called Powerful Queen: A feminist critique
by Mary Allnuttah
(Charles Crawford)
Indiscriminate Tweeting
by Mark Crowther
(Olimpiu Urcan)
My Ten Political Heroes
by Bobby Fischer
(Sarah Hurst)
Touch and Move: Grooming Champions
by Brian Eley (BBC/Savile Press)
Vladimir Putin’s History of Ukrainian Chess
(Sarah Hurst)
My 604,999,999 Memorable Opponents
by A. Paulson with foreword by B.S. deRigueur (Penguin)
(Tristan Clayton)
See also
How to Play the English Press by Raymond Keene
How Not to Beat Gary Kasparov by Alexei Suetin
Correction: How Not to Beat Gary Kasparov by Alexei Shirov
My One Great Contribution to Chess (Literature) by Cyrus Lakdawala.