Chess Pattern Recognition for Beginners: The Fundamental Guide to Spotting Key Moves in the Middlegame

The number one thing this book does is say it's a book for beginners. I have been involved with chess for over 50 years. I am a life member in the United States Chess Federation and a rated B class player. This book is not for beginners, it starts out showing your positions not patterns and telling you which color has the move in the position. No instruction on what to do, how many moves for the current position. A player with experience would figure out what to do. But the books title is pattern recognition. It doesn't make clear what are patterns, or even are or what it's trying to teach. No explanations about the patterns. It is just bunch of tactic puzzles. If you going to call a book for beginners you need to explain what your trying to do, and after brief explanation it might make sense.

This book is for advanced players, not beginners. The author himself says so in the opening sentence of his Preface, "As this book is about the middle game, it could hardly be for absolute beginners". But worse than that, it shows examples of play by chess Masters playing in international tournaments.

Necessary for chess improvement

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