I have the old version of this book. It is a great book. He writes in an engaging style and explains himself well. If he didn't the book would've been usless to me. When I read it it was pretty much over my head by a lot. I had just gotten to understand some basic pawn endings, and some basic rook endings, an I read 1 ancient middle game book (Znosko-Borovsky's). Suba's book basically flipped upside down everything I thought about chess. I didn't get what he was doing but I was able to deal with opponents that played like him (if you count kids in college in informal games, whereas he's a GM) much better. My chess definately improved after reading the book.
Anyway, he has an updated version of it. Has anyone compared the new one to the old one?
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I have the old version of this book. It is a great book. He writes in an engaging style and explains himself well. If he didn't the book would've been usless to me. When I read it it was pretty much over my head by a lot. I had just gotten to understand some basic pawn endings, and some basic rook endings, an I read 1 ancient middle game book (Znosko-Borovsky's). Suba's book basically flipped upside down everything I thought about chess. I didn't get what he was doing but I was able to deal with opponents that played like him (if you count kids in college in informal games, whereas he's a GM) much better. My chess definately improved after reading the book.
Anyway, he has an updated version of it. Has anyone compared the new one to the old one?