This book contains tips and techniques that can help you improve your playing strength.
It will discuss the things that you have to learn in order to become an excellent chess player. Then, it will teach you the ultimate strategies that you can implement in your own games. Finally, it will show you the best tactics that can help you crush your opponents easily.
This book uses theoretical explanations to assist the reader learn more about the game. To help the reader in mastering chess concepts and techniques, this game includes many grandmaster games. That means you will learn from the best chess players in the world.
Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn... How to Read Chess Notations How to Become a Strong Chess Player The Ultimate Chess Strategies The Ultimate Chess Tactics Much, much more!
Chess is a very complex game which can completely consume you, if you decide that is what you want. This book does a very nice job of reviewing several openings and the groupings that each resides. There are a few board diagrams that are incorrect or at least confusing in presentation (pieces don't always align with the description). The author discusses alternatives which could be what confuses the board diagram presentation.
Within the chapters on openings (approximately 50% of the book) the author has presented a succinct overview of popular openings, often using games contested between grand masters which is quite helpful. The additional game play information presented in the book (strategies, tactics, end-games and strategies) are too brief and should of been more expansive.
Overall the book does a very good job of presenting openings. As a chess player who isn't interested in allowing the game to consume my life the book is a very good instructional aide for strengthening my opening game play. I will reread the book to understand further the principles presented such as pins, forks, pawn chains and the strength of controlling lines.
This book is mostly just an analysis of grandmaster games and not really what the book title suggests. Perhaps, others will find it useful, but I didn't.