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Review title: Get the updated version of this book
Product review: This book was written over the course of one summer. That, alone, is an incredible feat. But the book is not user friendly. It is written in encyclopedic form. It is written in descriptive (old style) notation. It is hard to follow the lines of notation, as little guidence is given to the reader if he is in the main variation or a subvariation.In order to squeeze in as many words as possible, the book is extremely dense in terms of presentation. There is hardly any blank space in the margins of this book. It's a forboding book to study from.That being said, it's an excellent book. However, McKay has republished this book recently (2004). The new edition is revised by GM Pal Benko, an authority on endgames. The notation is updated from descriptive to algebraic. The layout in the new book is not as dense as this book.So, no one should buy this book; thus the poor rating. Buy Benko's revision of this book.
