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On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:44:59 -0500, Praetor Mandrake
<horchata12839@gmail.com> wrote:

<https://www.amazon.com/Power-Pawns-Structure-Fundamentals-Post-beginners/dp/9056916319/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AQQAYGEI5Y7E&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bTM4r5bULfArxQ5bw8vJFS8lEOZhXmABXQLY6N_0_WNhia_MpOcqPKW4viDzMO0dUfasFLCwCy9R-9_DREmOP1If66bA_JrTGL9SfAF3-DXQ65_k2DiNifwdqpjpN45N5NtAJr-J4Gs95cVkiFwaA6q_8Arjl2uqlYnWl-MZEGeProzKkdmz1sHS_WDo0Qzjc0xPmx7okqym3w_vg1h8_Ym2WXQG5jJI3MuMMWe9C2s.bUERRPuOH8A3s5sa1Wxpz3MCTtc6Pxmglw4-RCFDd1k&dib_tag=se&keywords=power+of+pawns&qid=1751208110&sprefix=power+of+pawns%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-1&asin=9056916319&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1>

(the catch is that the quote I mentioned is on page 2 - you'll have to
buy the book yourself)

Invaluable. It's opened up and I have even more. This book delivers.

I would be REALLY REALLY careful about Amazon's catagorization of
books as 'beginner' or 'intermediate' - I ordered two books last week
which the first used what is supposed to be a 3-D image of a chess
board (with pieces) but many of the diagrams were near impossible to
read. The second was labelled 'intermediate' but in my books it isn't intermediate if a 1600-1700 player (e.g. me - I was high 1800 for
years but haven't played in a tournament in 20 years) could work out
the solution and/or preferred line in 30 seconds or less - and that in
a book of about 150 pages I've gotten beyond page 60 before I found a
position I couldn't work out in detail just by eye alone. Neither of
these books are more than 1/4" thick.

(As opposed to the Khalfman book of his best games I've been reading
in the loo for the past two months - and I've come to regard Khalifman
very very highly as an annotator. I've got a similar book by Timman
which is equally good in the annotations though Timman's games are
from the 70s/80s all from top events whereas Khalifmans are all from
the last 10 years)

But for sure you can't trust AMAZON's evaluation of beginner /
intermediate / expert!
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