Status Updates From Grandmaster Opening Prepara...

Have stopped working on it for a while, not sure when I'm getting back at it.

I was not making progress in this book for these days as I was stuck in the exercise section from Chapter 2. I eventually had to skip it as I was afraid I would stop working on it altogether. The exercises were interesting, we are asked to see how an exchange of Bishop for Knights work in different situations, but I did not feel through the positions and felt clueless most of the time.

Got a good knowledge about isolated pawns and Tarrasch opening in general

Author mentions computer evaluations many times, it's a bit annoying

The author gives snippets from his life sometimes - no particular reasons but just his life story.