Mastering Opening Strategy By Johan Hellsten - Paperback

A good chess book but delivery very late. Item needed £7.0 PO delivery charge .

May not be suitable for the absolute beginner but the explanations and examples are good for player around >1300.

i am learning a lot from Mastering Opening Strategy.

3/3 stars for the material given by the author and 0/2 stars for book printing The games are well chosen and succinctly annotated. Whether the reader can improve his chess or not is a moot point. How many chess players complete a book before buying another one anyway? However, I will be careful when buying books because for the money dished out (almost 2000 bucks) the print quality is barely readable, giving the overall impression of money unwisely invested.

First step is to memorize the opening’s sequence of moves. This book shows you a view behind the scene: why is this sequence and not another leaving room for ones own creativity.