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Title: Excellent intro to positional thinking
Review: This book is _not_ a slapped together data dump of random sacs, but a mini-course in improving your positional understanding.While it does show the obligatory fun queen sacrifice, it also deals with concepts that intermediate players have trouble with: the importance of structure, weak color complexes, key squares, the virtues and weaknesses of minor pieces, exchange sacrifices.(It's like a sacrifice-advocating version of the classic Simple Chess by Michael Stean, which is anything but simple as it discusses positional strategy.)Both Jeremy Silman and John Donaldson like this book a great deal, and Silman calls it "fantastic" and "absolutely wonderful." Highly recommended to those who don't find serious chess texts on these important topics easy to slog through.
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