2 New Books by Jim Loy

[Alan Millhone]

Hello Everyone:

In my today's mail I received 2 new books authored by Mr. Jim Loy . One is VEGAS 2007 and the other is PRAGUE 2005.

The VEGAS book is 85 pages and has 9 color photos included. The book contains games of:

U.S. National GAYP national Tournament
" Arthur Niederhoffer" National Youth Tournament
WCDF GAYP World Qualifier
WCDF GAYP World Qualifier -- Women

Plus : Dr. Richard Beckwith's reminiscenses of vegas and all four tournament.

This book is $12.00 shipped in the USA.
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PRAGUE 2005 contains:

WCDF GAYP Qualifier
WCDF GAYP Women's Qualifier
WCDF GAYP Junior World Championship
With the story of the tournament as told by Dr. Richard Beckwith

This excellent book is also $12.00 shipped in the USA.

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Games in both books are very well annotated. I recommend to all of you to add both fine books to your Checker/Draughts Library.

Sincerely:
Alan Millhone, President
American Checker Federation

[MostFamousDane]

I thought Alex was going to do the book on the vegas qualifier 2007 and does this mean that the participants don't get a free copy ?

Sune
P.S. Looking forward to reading the annotation on my own games - NOT

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Sune, it is true that I planned to do this ... although for free. Unfortunately my comp is seriously broken and not functioning very well, and I am out from working on any books for many months. Jim kindly agreed to pickup this job. His efforts are worthy of much more than $12 - trust me ! I hope to get a new computer in the very nearest future and will be back to business any time soon.

In the meantime I would strongly recommend you to get these MUST books.

Regards,

Alex

[Ingo_Zachos]

Baught it.

I can't wait to see my bad games either.
If you plz could skip my mistakes
I wonder what happend to the Barbados 2004 and Stonehaven 2006 games?
The games of every important event should be published, may it be just as pdn download, a bulletin, or a tournament book.

Greetinx fom a Prague veteran

Ingo Zachos

[tommyc]

Stonehaven 2006 games?..........Ingo i thought Jim was also working on these, tho i may be wrong!!

[jimloy]

I finished annotating the Stonehaven 2006 games back in Sep. 2007. Graham Young insisted on publishing them himself. I haven't heard anything about it since.

[jimloy]

In the Vegas 2007 book, I forgot to identify the players in one of the color photos. The two guys playing checkers are, of course, Lubabalo Kondlo vs. Ron King.