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Title: Delivers what it promises
Review: Let's critique this book via the Henry James method: "What is he trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?" What he's trying to do is clearly laid out in the title: "How to Reassess Your Chess." This book is to help players with flawed technique or bad habits understand and correct the inadequacies in their play. Does he do what he sets out to do? An emphatic "yes"! This book totally changed my way of thinking about chess. Was it worth doing? Another emphatic "yes." As someone who'd been playing chess for about 20 years without getting any better, this was exactly the book I needed, and it has paid off handsomely. I'd give it five stars, but as an editor myself, I do have to knock off a star for the sloppy editing and amateurish typesetting (you can see the dot resolution of the laser printer it was run off on, and on about one page out of every 20, the publisher never got around to updating the typeface to Garamond from Garamond Antiqua).
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