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Title: Worthless as a first repertoire book
Review: With all due respect to the other reviewers, who are likely more accomplished players than I am, I found this book fairly useless, and worse yet a waste of time that I could have been spending learning more opening concepts. The problem may have been my expectations for the book -- it's obviously intended for an advanced audience -- but I took Gufeld at his word when he says that players of all levels can benefit from the book... Note especially the point about people buying repertoire books to save time, whereas GM Gufeld's choices require far more time to digest tons of theory.For us patzers, the best opening "repertoire" I've found so far is in the last three chapters of Seirawan's _Winning Chess Openings_. It may lack the sheer volume of variations that a strong player would require, but it's very strong on concepts, which is what I need.
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