Comments/Reviews, Chess Without Borders
"Thanks for putting together the book on Sture Nyman. I recently bought a copy through Amazon.com. I very much appreciate games collections for lesser-known masters (and I still like books much better than electronic files from database searches). Keep up the good work!"
- Jeffrey A. Tannenbaum (USA) 23 Apr 03
"I have had your book for two days now and I cannot put it down. What a pity that neither CHESS or BCM will stock it - the latter told me that there was no profit in it for them. Thank you again, I also have the POTTER BOOK which you refer to."
- John Walker (ENG) 10 May 03
Neil Brennen's Review from CCN 91 (1 June 2003)
"From the American correspondence chess master John Knudsen I received this self published chess book covering the life and chess career from the Swedish correspondence chess master Sture Nyman.
Besides the career of Sture Nyman there is interesting collection of 227 games where a small 30 of them cover excellent annotations. {Where I must say that ICCF IM Allan Savage has done a impressive work on these annotated games!} Of course it is surprising to see a biography from not so famous chess player but Knudsen must have been very impressed about the playing skills of Sture Nyman.
For example Sture took part in three ICCF World Championships reaching as high as fourth place in one. Interesting enough after Kon Grivainis Sture Nyman was also a WCCF GM, See Winning Correspondence Chess, Caissa Editions 1997, but Nyman his WCCF career is not covered by the author at all, probably Knudsen did not want to spend one line on the former WCCF chess organisation.
Less known is that Nyman also played with great players as Mieses and Bent Larsen, strangely enough I am missing in this book Nyman his famous Froms gambit game that Larsen once published in his famous Selected Games of Chess, Bell & Son 1969. Very nice in this book are the nine photographs {News paper quality} where many shall enjoy the rare photo made in the middle sixties from Sture Nyman and the young Bent Larsen! There is a story that Larsen was one time locked up in Sture’s bathroom but this story has not been confirmed!
Conclusion: A must for every chess book collector"
- John Elburg (NED) 01 August 2003
"This is one of the many good correspondence chess books!
In the foreword the author states that "If the reader comes away with an understanding of the man and his contributions to the lore of correspondence chess, then I have done my job in presenting it". In my opinion that goal is easily met!
One of the outstanding features of this book is that it gives a glimpse, albeit a historical one, into the laboratory of a great correspondence chess player who met, not without success, all the top players of his time. It contains nearly all of his correspondence chess games (and some OTB games as well), many with annotations by one of the players or by the author or by Alan Savage.
This book is highly recommended if you like (or want to learn!) correspondence chess! I don't know of any other correspondence chess biographies containing such (nearly) complete games material!"- Palle Bratholm (DEN) 19 November 2003