Winning Chess Combinations (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)

Well written, very good explanations, and example selection

Wow; many chess players have voted this series by Yasser Seirawan as the best single series on Chess! You could spend many productive hours studying this entire series of books. The final book in the series is out this year. Seirawan's writing is designed for us "laymen" and this easy to understand book will improve your game.

Yasser Seirawan dazzles his Winning Chess readers for the seventh time by bringing us his latest and greatest work, Winning Chess Combinations. If you do not already own this book, rush out to the neareast bookstore, purchase it, and read it as you grasp all of the information necessary for mastering Combinations in this fantastic work.

After a series of informative, stimulating, and gratifying works on everything from openings to endgames, tactics to strategy, Seirawan blunders with this move. The text details a number of interesting games and examines the rationale and philosophy of play with each but the book provides a disappointing treatise on the topic of combinations, the ordained reason for the book's existence. The title and preface would lead the reader to expect an in-depth review of combinational ideas, examples of unique and inventive combinations, and the challenging puzzles and tests that have consistently garnished the author's prior works. This one, sadly, seems to be a hodgepodge of material thrown together as an afterthought in the endgame of what has otherwise been a brilliant match.