Feb

20

Just got my copy of this newly published book and feel waves of sadness as I read David's conversational prose. I get several mentions, for example on page 31:

"From Bergen I flew to Oslo, to an international open tournament. I was met there by grandmaster Nigel Davies, whose acquaintance I had made back in 1988 in Protvino, a small town not far from Moscow. At that time we talked a great deal, and I expressed plainly everything that I thought about modern chess. And it was pleasant for me when, after producing a small flask of Scotch, Nigel said: 'David, I have been thinking a lot about your ideas and I see now that you were right!'. We drank to this, regretting only that it was just a small amount… Now I regret something else. Until recently Davies was the chess consultant for Batsford and I think that he could easily have persuaded the owners of the publishing house to publish my new book. But who now will say a word on my behalf?"

I can only say that I never knew that David had another book in preparation; the secret notes really were quite secret. And given my early dissatisfaction with Batsford in its various incarnations (before bankruptcy and afterwards, and I quit them twice) I would have advised that he find a publisher that would have done his work more justice. In the end he found an excellent one in Olms.


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