'The book is a good pocket size, with the right amount (in my view) of diagrams to text. I reviewed this on a flight to Budapest (and the return flight also) without a chess set in front of me so that shows just how easy it is to follow... There are some golden tips such as castling on the same side as your opponent in the Caro Kann, and that the pieces are 'dead' at the start of the game but our job is to magically make them come alive. It may sound like a Harry Potter scene but of course it is absolutely spot on. In all, this is a very useful book for amateur chess players... I 'connected' with it. It is written by people like me who played chess before computers and chess engines.' Carl Portman, Carl's Planet book reviews; '... lucidly written, logically laid out and easy to understand.' Barry Martin, Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today.