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Title: Classic book, poor binding
Review: I have to disagree with another reviewer who praised the high qualify of this Hays Publishing edition. The printing and diagrams are nice -- not those old, faded ones you see from Dover -- but the binding is glued, and the Walbrodt match pages have fallen out in my copy.Substance wise, this is very good. The annotations aren't move-by-move for beginners, but are precise and word-oriented. The openings are often dated, but a club player can still play them, and it's really the middle and end games that count. Not all of the games are memorable, of course, which is nice, because you get a taste of all kinds of games the way chess is actually played.
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