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Title: Not a Standout in a Competitive Field
Review: This is just not a good book. It's not well-written, not well-edited, and not well-organized. Though I was at first impressed by Silman, I don't care for this effort...there are much better books available for the novice. A good deal of this book is devoted to (very basic) discussion of the openings, and while openings are of course the basic elements of any strategy, that's not what I would expect from a book with this title. I can't recommend this to any but novice players.
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