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Title: What Secrets?
Review: Having read all the great reviews about this book, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that they were written by the author himself. This book is DREADFUL.Contrary to the title, it contains no secrets whatsoever. Rather, it states no more than obvious principles that any half decent player knows. What's more, it is full of general statements, lacking in concrete examples. Further, numerous key topics are not covered at all; eg pawn break throughs; penetration squares for the King.The book contains extremely little analysis. On numerous occasions, it says something like: "If White plays this move, he should draw" without offering any supporting analysis whatsoever.Making it even worse is the endless discussion between the author and pupil. I suspect this was put it to compensate for the lack of genuine chess content. Take out the endless dialogue bewteeen author and pupil and the book would only be around 20 pages.Don't buy this book.
