На популярния форум chesspub.com се развихри бурен дебат около новата книга на Chess stars - издателството на Семков:
http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/Y ... 7245342/45Посипаха се взаимни обвинения, на част от които станахме свидетели по време на ЕП...
Във форума Спасов публикува неговия дял от работата върху книгата във вид на 5 pgn файла. Семков отговори по следния начин:
The truth is quite different: GM Spasov has never spoken (or written) to me - the publisher - in the last 10 or more years. Kolev himself proposed him as a coauthor more than a year ago since they used to analyse together these systems. Then last summer Kolev complained that GM Spasov, who probably has not published a word in his life, was too lazy to write anything and was useless as an author. Then he started looking for a more conscientious worker and chose GM Nedev. That was in July 2007. Since then the book began taking shape, a lot of novelties have been discovered to meet Khalifman's idea and also Anand's idea in Linares. I was in constant touch with the authors, we analysed together as I'm an exigent editor, and I can assure you that Spasov has nothing to do with at least the most important parts of the book. Of course if I knew that he felt bitter, I would have cleared things before printing. But obviously, Spasov was too lazy even to leave me a message.
Now you can better understand why we published 2 books on the Sveshnikov - because it is so difficult to find serious, thorough authors, that we cannot define beforehand our publishing plans. We take any valuable material, when it shows up.
И стана скандал като за нова книга...