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Hello everyone here in the lichess community. I hope you are all doing quite well. I am here to let you know, that I have written 3 different chess books on 3 different topics, and am releasing the book that all of you decide for $15.

In other words, the book that each of you would like to have the most will be sold for $15 a copy (you can private message me for the book). Many of you are thinking, why not just sell all three? Well, I want to know which book you all find most relevant to your chess improvement and have the most interest in, so that I know which book to promote in my local community and to all of the chess enthusiasts I know.

So without further adue, these are the three different kinds of books:

1) A fully comprehensive guide of the Sicilian Najdorf, including all of the best lines worth memorizing, many ideas and reference games associated with those lines, and my personal take on how you should approach the opening.

2) A more general guide on what it takes to obtain a 2000 National (for me USCF) rating (and yes I have exceeded this myself).

3) A breakdown on my chess wisdom, along with games and insights that reveal interesting points as to how to approach the next level.

I would greatly appreciate your opinions as to which book you feel is the one most interesting to you. If you feel that there is a better book idea out there, feel free to recommend it either here or by personal message, and if it receives enough public approval, I would be glad to push out my opinions on the particular subject.

I thank the lichess community again for all the great things it has done for me and for all the great experiences that have come with serving you all.

Best of Luck in your chess endeavors!

Well... none of the above.
1) What makes you qualified to write a full and comprehensive guide about it?
2) 2000 USFC is not an ambitious goal.
3) What makes you qualified to spread chess wisdom?

I agree with tpr. The Sicilian Najdorf is such a complex opening. There is no way a 2000 can understand it, none the less make a full comprehensive guide on it.

Congrats on making 2000, but don't think that you are enlightened in your chess understanding.

Aside from your qualifications, I am also a bit skeptical about the quality of the books, seeing as you've written 3 books. Good books take over a year to write. Quality over quantity.

I would appreciate if you would consider releasing something like the first 10 pages of each of these books for free, so we can get an idea of the quality.

If you've already written the books, why are you holding 2 of them hostage? Why not just publish them all? I don't understand the point of this post, except maybe to brag.

idk. I think TitleKiller is entitled to do whatever he wants. If he is ambitious about it and has two things:
1. Determination
2. Perseverance
Then I don't see the problem. Of course material by a 2000 is not going to be of the same level as a GM writing the book but is that REALLY the point? Maybe he is doing it to improve his own chess while helping others at the same time. There is nothing wrong or illegal about it.

A 2000 can (but not always) be a better coach than a GM...

@tpr
The comments here are interesting. It seems that the content of the respective books is not nearly as important as the qualifications of the person writing these books.

@jposthuma
That does seem like a decent point. What rating threshhold do you think is necessary to offer such enlightened understanding?

@corvett
The point is not to brag but to see which book you all would be most interested in. From writing to publishing there are a lot of steps and up front investment required, so it would be much better to start with the one with the most public approval as opposed to try to endorse all three from the get go.

@chessanalyst
That is part of the reason, I have been in the process of researching and writing these books over the past 8-10 months, and have learned a great deal personally from all the research done.

@seanysean
Thank you for all the support :)

@TitleKiller
If Kasparov or say Maxime Vachier-Lagrave were to write a book on the Najdorf I would be curious. I once bought a $50 book of a weak player and I found it worth wile for its original ideas. I bought it after browsing through it at the book stand at a tournament.
I need no book on 2000, I am long past that.
A book on chess wisdom might be interesting, but only if the author has more wisdom than the reader. As a measure of the wisdom I take the credentials of the author: what has he accomplished? It need not even be a top player: also a famous second, trainer or correspondence player will do.
Most books have a descriptive section on the author on their back side.