Title: A Change of Pace
Product review: I immediately put down Robb's biography of Victor Hugo to do some serious browsing. I enjoyed that too. The subheadings, lively anecdotal style, index are all helpful for browsing. Since I started to learn chess only a few months ago (at age 69), I assumed I would be able to make no sense at all of the various chess games, but GM Schwartzman's chatty analyses and inclusion of the notation letters/numbers along the edges of the diagrams mean that I cannot only enjoy the chat and but see that with a little effort I'll be able to get beyond it into the details of the games (a little, anyway). I liked reading the accounts of people such as Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Carol Jarecki, Florencio Camponmanes, Frank Camaratta, etc., whose names are familiar to me from internet browsing and/or chess fame. The Acronym appendix is welcome too--now I know what the "A" in LMA stands for!
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