Does anyone own this book?

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The Road to Chess Improvement by Alex Yermolinsky

It was mentioned recently in Chess Life. This book is priced over $100.00 on Amazon. Does anyone here own a copy? Is it really that good? Is it worth the price?

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Road to Chess Improvement
9781901983241 "How can I improve my game?" is a perennial question facing chess-players. While there are no easy answers, Alex Yermolinsky is better qualified than most to ...

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But it has free shipping!! 🙄

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@mchill said
The Road to Chess Improvement by Alex Yermolinsky

It was mentioned recently in Chess Life. This book is priced over $100.00 on Amazon. Does anyone here own a copy? Is it really that good? Is it worth the price?

You can get it on Kindle for $9.95.

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My library has it so I will check it out.

What is with people selling books on Amazon for massive prices lately?
Are they hoping some dummy comes along and buys it? 🙄

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Hi Cheesemaster,

Some Amazo books have always been heavily priced but with that Netflix
'Queens Gambit'thing everyone is upping their prices and no doubt online
coaches are springing up all the place.

Don't think I have the Yermolinsky book. Cannot comment on it.

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That's funny

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What relevance does this have to the Alex Yermolinsky book? Seems a bit too egotistical and a bit self-serving considering you're quoting you're own post.

On the subject of the Alex Yermolinsky book I haven't got one so can't comment on it.

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Well the OP asked if $100 was worth the book and I asked why are chess books so expensive now in Amazon and it's because of people thinking what they have is valuable and expensive because of that show "The Queen's Gambit" and that brought up the over abundance of new online coaches trying to make easy money from dumb people who are new to chess and don't know any better.

Try to follow along 😉

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Its a massive tangent quoting one's own posts 🙂

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Many thanks to everyone here for the feedback. This looks promising, and I'll put it on my list. Still a few months before I'm ready for another book though - 🙂

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Wow, really, I'll look at chess coaching then! My last ECF rating was 128 in old money so I've got 200 new money points on that guy (the ECF recently changed from a three digit system to a four digit one - also I'm probably better than that rating even at the time). I'll quote my puzzles rating on LiChess which is 2,400 plus some loose change as they revamped their system and it was easy to get ratings points for a little while - I was up to 2,550 but they made everyone's puzzle ratings provisional and I missed two of them which cost me a combined 184 points.