@Leon_Trotsky:  These days, I’ll often look for an electronic version I can read on ForwardChess or with ChessBase.  But with actual books, I pretty much do the same thing as you — just read it through and study the diagrams.

I bought Krasenkow's book whist I was in París. Looks interesting to me. Thinkers Publishing seem to publish a lot of these game collection books lately.

How do you usually read þese annotate game books ¿ I usually read it leisurely and try to absorb the chess content passively like a novel.

But I am not sure if this is how these types of books are to be read..

Thanks. I looked at the sample and so far I haven't seen any other typos. Perhaps the editor was just having a bad day when they reached that page? But I did notice a couple of "missed" transpositions.

• pages 15-16 : 18.Ka1! Bc6 19.Nh4 b5 20.f4 a5 21.Rgf1 versus 18.Nh4?! b5 19.f4 Bc6 20.Rgf1 b4 etc., not noticing that 20.Ka1 transposes to the 18.Ka1 line.
• page 23 : 42.Qxd3?! (I cannot see what he says about the continuation as this is the last page of the sample) versus 42.Ng6+! Kg8 43.Qxd3 Nxd3 etc., but of course 42.Qxd3 Nxd3 43.Ng6+ transposes to the 42.Ng6+ line.

It's quite a good game, here's the rest of it: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1066487

A few typos I can deal with, but does the book have any opinion or insight? e.g. What exactly are we looking at in the screenshot, is it a theory section (variation "a" and the whole page is devoted to the wrong move for white), or is it a game annotation? It looks boring for an annotation. I would rather know what Kamsky was thinking during the game instead of what the latest engine says now.

My impression of young Kamsky was that in equalish positions he played on the same side of the board as his opponent's last move. If I am correct about this, it was probably a distortion due to always playing the strongest possible opponents when he was not yet their equal. Later when he was in the class of world championship candidates he definitely didn't play the same way as before. That's true for any player who improves, but I want to know what Kamsky thought about it.

Kamsky starts off with a few typos: