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Summary: Excellent instructive content
Review: Face it, many of us lose games in under 25 moves or so. What makes this collection of modern miniatures compelling are a few factors: you get to see world class players make some obvious errors, which rebuilds our hope that even though we make many mistakes, we can still be competent; McDonald is an excellent writer; and, most importantly, there is a wealth of textual explanation and analysis of positions. For instance, he frequently somes up the results of the opening to show what it is about the position that leads subsequently to the quick win. This makes the book an excellent instructive manual on the opening and middlegame.
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Summary: Excellent instructive content
Review: Great little book in you enjoy playing over miniatures (games won in under 30 moves). Over 50 games by players such as Kasparov, Kamsky, Kramnik, etc. that are well annotated. Games are grouped by theme to illustrate attacking methods.
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Summary: Pure Fun
Review: Great little book in you enjoy playing over miniatures (games won in under 30 moves). Over 50 games by players such as Kasparov, Kamsky, Kramnik, etc. that are well annotated. Games are grouped by theme to illustrate attacking methods.
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Summary: Really Fun Book !
Review: This is a really great effort. The format, diagrams, and games are all excellent. This book could be used just for fun (i.e. playing over the games), or for instruction (i.e. especially in a scholastic setting). I once attended a lecture given by Grandmaster Ashley on how to teach scholastic players (i.e. what was most important for rapid improvement). He said the focus should be 1) tactics 2 ) endgames and 3) play over minature games. Playing over minature games can help you (or your students) develop a sort of "feel" for tactics sort of by osmosis. anyway, give this book a try - you wou't be disappointed.
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