Dr. Frances Lipp,Colorado:
        "I immediately put down Robb's biography of Victor Hugo to do some serious browsing. I enjoyed that too. The subheadings, lively anecdotal style, index are all helpful for browsing. Since I started to learn chess only a few months ago (at age 69), I assumed I would be able to make no sense at all of the various chess games you include, but GM Schwartzman's chatty analyses and your considerate inclusion of the notation letters/numbers along the edges of the diagrams mean that I cannot only enjoy the chat and but see that with a little effort I'll be able to get beyond it into the details of the games (a little, anyway). 
        "I liked reading your accounts of people such as Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Carol Jarecki, Florencio Campomanes, Frank Camaratta, etc., whose names are familiar to me from internet browsing and/or chess fame. The Acronym appendix is welcome too -- now I know what the "A" in LMA stands for!" 

International Master Walter Shipman:                              "CHESSDON is both entertaining and a valuable historical work. I had a sense of deja vu having traveled some of the same territory when I worked for Jerry Spann (1957-1960)."

George Swift, Wyoming:
        "CHESSDON is so well written I couldn't put it down."

Dr. Al Jenkins, North Carolina:
        "A masterpiece!"

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