Has anyone read Pandolfini's Ultimate guide to chess?

I am 1/3 of the way through this book and it seems so elementary, with no promise for getting more advanced very quickly. Can anyone tell me in a definitive way, as to how advanced this book gets and how soon? I find myself losing interest. I don't want to waste my time reading something that isn't going to help me, but I don't want to skim or skip ahead and miss important things.

I wish we could edit our thread titles. I hate when I mispell something, but it is worse when I can't edit it.

This is how I feel about Fischers. 150 or so pages in and nothing that's even made me stop to think. Sorry for the off topic but wanted to vent.

I appreciate the info. I find it disheartening to watch a vid, movie, etc. That takes two hours or less to discover I don't like it. I really, really despise when I have spent hours over the course of weeks and realize that I got nothing I was looking for out of a book, that seems to have a bad advertisement in the title.

Rensch's videos on this site are gold in my opinion.

Totally agreed.

Yeah I read that book.  It would be good for rank beginners.  The best part, I thought, however, was the section on the intermezzo.

I am begining to feel like he is doing a good job so far of going over the basics for beginners, but I am more interested in the intermediate and advanced materials.

I prefer Gandalfini.  :-p

Then let me recommend "The art of combination in chess" and "The middle game in chess" by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky.

Thanks...

ok first book its just the basics it doesnt get advanced

   Pandolfini's Guide to chess is just that; A Guide!  All 16 chapters can be an expanded volume in itself. It might be a beginners book, but it gives you an idea about the style of that author. I wish I had half his rating. He's written about 16 books; I have about 9. Try his Endgame book, or "Traps & Zaps 2"

I'm not sure why skimming/skipping ahead wouldn't work.