fling wrote on 01/01/14 at 14:54:14:


Well, that is what I am doing now - laptop and a second monitor. Far from ideal.

Not to turn this into a review...but I did post it in the Daring Defenses for a reason; I spent a fair amount of time on this 'e-book' yesterday.

If anyone has the DVD (or even the old book for the most part) and subscribes to Chess Publishing...it's definitely not essential.

The analysis is ever optimistic, he does not actually tell the reader much about how to play certain lines...some are largely just lines, no real advice, very little to no advice at the end of some lines. You almost get the sense that Williams is keeping a lot to himself in certain lines for himself. 

Basically, it is lazy. Yes, the 'Brainstorming Points' are a good idea, sometimes well done, but that's about the only good point I see to the ebook.

I would point out that there are many errors. This can I think be attributed to the PDF format. If there was pgn file/reader to come with it, those would have been easily found, but more than once I see something like 6...Bd7 followed by 7...Bd7. And one page (don't recall which since you can't bookmark them) is a confused mess of thoughts and lines...like someone deleted some of it by mistake and the editor did not catch it. 

I would give it a 2/2.5 out of 5 at best. Really not at all necessary for anyone on ChessPublishing.

This should perhaps be moved to Chess and Computers and the topic changed to "Can you play thru moves of a pdf?"