hi Sagwa
Actually I have received it with a bunch of other new books such as " your best move " (Per ostman) and many other familliar items and was reviewing them . Now your post has motivated me to give a brief review per each of them .
First answering to your question honestly I must say that Neishtadt's book is somewhat more difficult than what I expected. I assume it targets a 1800-2400 level player. I recommend you not order this book at least untill you reach a class B . Instead , you can start with "back to basics : tactics" by Dan Heisman which is the best tactic book for below 1500 level ever written in the world ! also " winning chess tactics " by Yasser Seiravan is a good option too. The next step will be john Nunn's " Learning chess tacics " and then " understanding chess tactics " by Martin Weteschnick. if after all of these and plenty of training tactics , you pick up Neishtadt's book going through his puzzles I think then you will be able to solve and digest 90% of the material .
Meanwhile I would like to explain my impressions with some of other items that I hope will be usefull for someone .
For example "improving annotator " is a good work by Dan Heisman , but not as fascinating as his other basic works.
in return "Lasker's manuall of chess " new algebric 21st century edition in fact was a surprize for me. a very high quality book with plenty of deep materials still fresh after 80 years !
another surprize for me was Tisdall's " imrove your chess now " . What a lovely book is this little pink book ?! and again to my surprize it's not a simple book absolutly ! and full of new ideas for improvement which you can't find similar elsewhere ! when I took this book in my hands and reviewing it for first time Just one name came to my mind : Irving Chernev !
"Elements of chess strategy" is a new book which reminds me of a very similar book " chess strategy for tournement players" ! I think that Author probably wanted to write an UPDATE for that ! Vast majority of this book proceeds to the " story of bishops in variouse middle games " .
"Chess duels " by Seiravan and "Diary of a chess queen" by Alexandra Kosteniuk are probably the best outobiography &outo game collections in the year 2010 , though Seiravan's book is apparently higher both in quality and annotations and his attractive story-type writting method.
"Revolutionize your chess" by Victor Moskalenko raised a big question mark in my mind ! why such a modern high instructive and well-organised book has been mentioned very fewly in chess sites and forums ?! strange !
True lies in chess
chess blueprints
Attacking manual 1,2
Dynamic chess strategy (new expanded edition)
modern chess move by move
a guide to chess improvement
chess tips for young players
your best move
sorcerer's Apprentice
how to calculate chess tactics
simple chess (michael stean)
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are my recent purchases.
Please dont hesitate to ask any question about any of them or giving your valuable opinions and expriences.
Aidin