I occasionally use abebooks.com to locate a desired book. Therefore I get e-mails from them, publicizing interesting offers. Their latest calls attention to their Weird Book Room. (“I” before “e” except in “weird.”)
Their introductory statement calls attention to the “Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories,” which certainly is weird. (It can be verified also through bookfinder.com.) But then they also call attention to a book “Jewish Chess Masters on Stamps.”
I am not sure how we should take this.
Take it with a rabbi rather than a bishop.
At first I couldn’t figure out the title at all… I thought it was about equivalent to “Scandinavian Numismatists on the Ruy Lopez.” I had to Amazon it to realize that they were talking about putting players faces/images on the stamps. (It isn’t Jewish Chess Masters treating the subject of philately. 
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Part of Amazon’s description:
As someone who’s dabbled a little in Judaica as related to ancient numismatics, I suppose it makes a degree of sense. The question is, is it aimed at philatelists, chess enthusiasts, chess enthusiasts who are also philatelists, those interested in Judaica, other?
It’s interesting that while there are numismatists, philatelists, lepidopterists, machinists, communists, capitalists… there is no term for one who engages in chess-related studies. Caissist? Shahmatist?
Psychologist or psychiatrist? Or were you focusing on chess-players engaging in the studies?
I’ve heard of kibitzers, but would one also involved in Judaica be instead called a kibbutzer?
Scacologist. From Greek σκάκι “chess” + -λογία.
The pun, I suppose, just happened to be there.
beige, cleidoic, codeine, conscience, deify, deity, deign,
dreidel, eider, eight, either, feign, feint, feisty,
foreign, forfeit, freight, gleization, gneiss, greige,
greisen, heifer, heigh-ho, height, heinous, heir, heist,
leitmotiv, neigh, neighbor, neither, peignoir, prescient,
rein, science, seiche, seidel, seine, seismic, seize, sheik,
society, sovereign, surfeit, teiid, veil, vein, weight,
weir, weird
caffeine, casein, codeine, deil (Scots, devil), disseize,
either, geisha, inveigle, keister (slang, buttocks),
keister, leisure, monteith, neither, obeisance,
phenolphthalein, phthalein, protein, seize, seizin, sheik,
sheila (Australian slang for “girl”, not capitalized),
specie, species, teiid
Not a comprehensive list, but I think a good chunk of the execptions.
After a closer look, I noticed a few words that have the “cie” in them. ROFL. Guess the author was sloppy.
alt-usage-english.org/I_before_E.html
Thats my source.
Raise Eyebrow Fascinating… 
It does make sense. I suppose a Caissaist could be one that treats Chess like or as a religion.
Keister is mentioned twice, as well. Now mine happens to be large enough for two, but really… :mrgreen:
Someday I might reach the time when I will be more flexibly inflexible, and I can say I live my life with no buts. 
Thank you… I’ll be playing this room until I let my membership expire…
…and I, a Life Member, do not wish to see my membership expire too soon at all…
Keister ()()