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Title: Defense has little to do with this book
Review: Like some other reviewers have mentioned, the title of this book and the introduction are completely misleading. The main sections are Lasker and Petrosian as "Defender" and yet most of the Lasker games are him attacking and Crouch talks about the opponent under pressure!! Another case of ridiculous writing. Don't be fooled by the word heavy annotations either, it's mostly bs about what other people said and rarely relates to the theme of defense. I've read three books on defense, Andy Soltis "The Art of Defense in Chess" has been the best so far. I also read the one by POlugayevsky with the same title, not as good. This is the worst so far because like I said, there's hardly any talk about defensive themes and the featured defenders are rarely the ones defending! Stupid marketing or stupid writing, I'm not sure which. I hope Mihail Marin and Jacob Aagaard's books aren't as disappointing, I'm moving on to them.
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