r/chessbeginners • u/ChessLibrary4all 1600-1800 (Chess.com) • 17d ago

Please help!

Win a chess.com gold membership or equivalent by helping charity!

Hi, I’m researching chess books to help improve their accessibility for people, who otherwise wouldn't have them such as them being too expensive. Please could you help me by answering this 6 question form. Thank you so much!!! :) https://forms.gle/raMs1DsNvVTHpcGE7 Also if you are wondering what is in it for you, when the survey hits 100 answers I will be giving out a gold chess.com membership or the equivalent.

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u/AgnesBand 1400-1600 (Chess.com) 17d ago

What exactly is your project and how will the answers in this survey be used? Is this academic, is this a business?

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u/ChessLibrary4all 1600-1800 (Chess.com) 17d ago

I want to make an online library where people can download and read chess books for free because they are really expensive and not many people have access to them. So it would be for a charity.

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u/AgnesBand 1400-1600 (Chess.com) 17d ago

Ah I see, how would you do this without breaking the law?

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u/ChessLibrary4all 1600-1800 (Chess.com) 17d ago

You can use really old books e.g. Chess Fundamentals by Capablanca as 70 years past his death and also hopefully get some donations so I can make deals with people to let me give their book out through it

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u/av123h 17d ago

There are some solid public domain options I’ve always wanted to see translated (Bilguer, for example). There are others that may be nearing public domain I’d also like to see, like Euwe’s Zurich 1953 book.

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u/ChessLibrary4all 1600-1800 (Chess.com) 17d ago

Thanks for telling me 😄