Positional Chess Handbook

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Summary: Excellent Material for the Price
Review: First off, this book is a compilation of strategic examples. The author groups these examples according to theme (Key Squares, Pawn Structure, Positional Sacrifices) and presents them with a few explanatory textual comments and variations. The author is far from prolix, so you should already understand the strategic themes and want to peruse a selection of illustrative examples and analyze them yourself. For the price, I feel this book is outstanding and one of the best of the Dover reprints. The author does not swamp the reader with Fritz like variations, but provides enough input to guide the independent reader on their way. For those formulating their approach to positional chess, the Positional Chess Handbook would be worth the $.

Rating:
Summary: great content, badly published
Review: printed as a smaller book than usual, the diagrams are the smallest I ever saw in a chess book, nearly unreadable.. I'd pay more for a normal sized book, but would never have bought this one if I'd seen it first.

Publishers need more consideration for quality.

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Summary: The Best Value For A Positional Chess Book!
Review: This is an excellent book on chess. The diagrams are clear and can easily be followed through and the previous reviewer who commented that they were too small, was on my part greatly exagerated and didn't do any justice on such a great work of art. Buy one copy for yourself and decide. This book will afford me countless hours of enjoyment and I am sure it will do the same for you.