Post by thealmightymudworm on Jun 25, 2022 2:29:06 GMT
Just a curiosity...
My mother is trying to get rid of excess books. One important category is chess books as my brother was an excellent junior player. However there are so many books – over a hundred and possibly hundreds – that it seems unlikely that he ever read them all.
On inspection, the book works by taking the reader through a series of puzzles by offering them choices with different choices of move to make as the right answer and one or more wrong answers. Of course this is not like a gamebook – whether you get the answer right or wrong you are directed on to the next puzzle. But if you pick the wrong option there is an explanation as to why it is wrong. The idea is that having a different response to different choices and making questions harder to skip makes it much more like having an in person tutor. Laskar acknowledged that the book is based on TutorTexts. I was surprised (perhaps stupidly) that the book dated from 1972 (publication)/1970 (first articulation).
My mother is trying to get rid of excess books. One important category is chess books as my brother was an excellent junior player. However there are so many books – over a hundred and possibly hundreds – that it seems unlikely that he ever read them all.
Anyway I said I'd like to keep a couple and just by chance took a look at this one: Chess, The Complete Self Tutor (Edward Laskar)
On inspection, the book works by taking the reader through a series of puzzles by offering them choices with different choices of move to make as the right answer and one or more wrong answers. Of course this is not like a gamebook – whether you get the answer right or wrong you are directed on to the next puzzle. But if you pick the wrong option there is an explanation as to why it is wrong. The idea is that having a different response to different choices and making questions harder to skip makes it much more like having an in person tutor. Laskar acknowledged that the book is based on TutorTexts. I was surprised (perhaps stupidly) that the book dated from 1972 (publication)/1970 (first articulation).
