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Title: ridiculous, actually
Review: Stohl has very little to add to his computer's analysis--and if that were not already unforgiveable in a chess author, his lack of judgment in the lines he evaluates and includes, too many of which are entirely irrelevant to the themes and motiffs the players are exploring, completes the assessment. I am rated > 2400, and find analysis like this, UNLESS I CONDUCT IT MY SELF, next to useless: it is unlikely that a person can learn mathematics by watching someone else add.Stohl's two volumes on Kasparov is better, but let's face it, Stohl is not a great chess player, and he is not a great author. He is, as Davies has complained more generally, one of the "organization men" of the chess world, not really needed, but wanting any other form of life, compelled to impose themselves where they would most like to fit.I rate it one star, but it perhaps deserves two--if I were grading it as a doctoral thesis on the unimportant.tlt -
