The good news in all this is that none of these fires have caused anything other than very minor damage. When it comes to kitchen fires, QFD reminds you to, "never leave your range or stove top unattended, wear short, close-fitting or tightly rolled sleeves, keep your cooking area clean and free of combustible materials, clean up any spilled grease and keep a fire extinguisher nearby."Īs for fires that start in clothes dryers, "your dryer's lint filter should be cleaned before each use and you should clear the lint from around the drum once a year, or sooner, if you notice it is taking longer for your clothes to dry."Īnd, whatever the cause, you are reminded to always have a working smoke detector.Īs it pertains to the red wreath campaign, six of the two dozen lights on the wreath have been changed from red to white. I am currently reading Kramnik: Move by Move also by IM Lakdawala and hope that player-specific books continue to be released.Of the half-dozen cases, three have involved unattended food, two have started in clothes dryers and one had to do with a wood grill being too close to a house. In addition IM Lakdawala has a sense of humor that comes across very clearly and serves to add to the material rather than to detract (or even worse, distract) from it. The explanations given are clear and articulate, and the variational analysis is not to overwhelming for a club player.
ChessCentral also offers the complete line of Everyman chess ebooks for download. I found the book to be not only easy to read, but eye opening as well. Try an e-book classic like Laskers Common Sense in Chess or Retis Modern Ideas in Chess improve your chess endgame or explore a dynamic chess opening. That book has improved my play more than any other book I have ever read. However, when I picked up IM Cyrus Lakdawala's excellent book Capablanca: Move by Move I really saw what this series can mean to a player trying to improve. I picked up the books on the Scheveningen, and on the English and enjoyed them. After all, I've always asked lots of questions of stronger players in my own efforts to improve. When the series was first announced and the first book on the The Slav was announced I thought that the question and answer format might work out rather nicely.
While I can't imagine that a GM would pick up a book like The Scheveningen: Move by Move in hopes of learning a new opening system, a club player can do so with confidence. Everyman Chess's excellent Move by Move series seems to me to be a real boon to players of varying levels.
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