Books formerly belonging to Adrian Hollis

[Kevin Thurlow]

Recently a book-stall in Wells Market has been offering chess books, from the collection of Adrian Hollis (as his name is inscribed in some of them). The stallholder plays chess so he's reading some of them first... I regret to say that "Winning at Correpsondence Chess" by Tim Harding was still unsold today, as are the opening books.

[Nick Ivell]

Winning at correspondence chess probably won't sell, if the answer nowadays is 'have the most powerful engine'.

[Kevin Thurlow]

In fairness, it was published in 1996, and it did have a section on clerical errors, which was relevant then as games were played by post. Writing Rf6 when you meant Rf5 is a good way to lose. Nowadays, you "submit" the move on a board, and then hit "commit" if you mean to do it. Seeing it on the board makes it less likely that you will play the wrong move (although I won a game recently when an opponent did that). The book also talked about openings and preparation.

And sometimes you overrule the software successfully!