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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I just finished both volumes and feel I know chess a lot better.
I am currently rated 1800 and it took me over 2 years of off again on again study to complete both books. Sometimes I would play over the games twice but the time is worth it if you want to improve at chess. There are other great books on chess like My System by Nimzovitch or Chess Strategy by Pachman, but both are turgid and boring going compared to this modern classic. It covers the entire sweep of chess history and discusses most middlegame concepts like the minority attack or asymetric pawn structures or development vrs material advantage or the art of defense. I can go on and on. I would say you cannot go wrong with these 2 books. Also if you have chessbase the Ossimitz chess site has a good download site where you can download this whole book in chessbase format. Stydying chess could not get any easier.
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Summary: A tremendous instructional book!
Review: The last guy to review this book down below apparently meant to give it 5 stars, but instead gave it zero. Oops!This book, along with Book 1 on Static Features, was a very big reason why I made it up to a USCF Expert rating. Buy these two books. Study them. Watch your rating climb!
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Summary: Great middlegame book- perhaps one of the best
Review: The section on the games and styles of the greatest chess players is worth the price of this book alone. The bulk of the book uses grandmaster games to illustrate middlegame strategies- attack against the king, maneuvering, etc. This book is as good as Ruben Fine's Middlegame in Chess book, perhaps even better. This is a new 1994 algebraic edition of an original 1964 textbook.
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Summary: One of the best middlegame books ever written!!
Review: The section on the games and styles of the greatest chess players is worth the price of this book alone. The bulk
of the book uses grandmaster games to illustrate middlegame strategies- attack against the king, maneuvering, etc.
This book is as good as Ruben Fine's Middlegame in Chess book, perhaps even better. This is a new 1994
algebraic edition of an original 1964 textbook.
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