The worst-ever chess book?

Any serious contender for the ‘Worst-ever Chess Book Award’ needs to display a comprehensive range of defects, for the competition is tough. Spectacular incompetence with basic facts is a sine qua non. There must also be many typos (or ‘mere typos’, as some self-exculpatory authors like to call them), with at least one or two jumping out to hit the eye from almost any page where the opened volume happens to expose itself. The prose should be excruciating. Wily and/or inept propaganda is de rigueur. As its crowning glory, the book should contain the uncredited lifting of other people’s writing, whilst also featuring self-congratulatory words about its superiority over rival titles. - Edward Winter.

German silmans complete endgame course

King's Gambit by Viktor Korchnoi and Vladimir Zak.
www.amazon.com/Kings-Gambit-Viktor-Vladimir-Korchnoi/dp/B000WTN57E
A player had studied the book and played against its author Viktor Korchnoi. He followed the line of the book and when the player made the last move in the book line, where the book line indicated a huge advantage for this player, then Korchnoi played one move and the player could resign.

@tpr , that was awesome 😀😀😀😀

Although its not a book, Alpha Zero's method of learning chess by playing against yourself only, is a total disaster. LOL Anyone tried this method already?

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Carlsen also mentioned that he became stronger by doing exactly that.

@tpr
I assume that Carlsen's allegation was in fact a fine irony.

"Schach für Fortgeschrittene" by H.C. Opfermann

www.amazon.de/Schach-f%C3%BCr-Fortgeschrittene-Erfolge-Schachgestalten-Strategie/dp/3453416244

I read the book, but I still don't know what a chess figure (Schachgestalt) is! This book contains only bla bla bla!

Nice 1974 Olympiad by Keene & Levy (that classic 70s comedy team). A 200-page bag of gas.

At one point Keene (annotating one of his own games) says, "Here I lost all respect for my opponent." I knew the feeling.

Probably any book by "H.C. Opfermann"...