Title: Review of Eric Schiller's "Big Book of Combinations."
Product review: Although it is hard to imagine a totally worthless book on chess combinations, this book comes very close. The author gives no solutions to the combinations, only the first move of each. Space supposedly does not permit the author to give full solutions, but space never stopped other authors of similar books. M. K. Blokh's "The Art of Combination" has more combinations, complete solutions and a lower price than Schiller's book, as can be said for nearly every other book on chess combinations.The author also fails to categorize the openings by theme; thus the novice student won't learn anything about thematic positions. Some of the key moves are incorrect as well, so there is very little to recommend this book other than its mildly interesting discussion of chess-playing computers.
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