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When Black Is OK!, Andras Adorjan’s first book, was originally published in 1988, it became an immediate bestseller and a cult classic. In this follow-up, his message remains just as emphatic: too many chess players adopt an unnecessarily defensive approach with the Black pieces. Instead, they should strive immediately for double-edged positions with winning chances. Adorjan offers concrete opening variations and illustrative games to support his claim.
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A very good book, but a very bad proofreader..........2005-03-25
This book is a sequel to "Black is OK", a book that I never read but became something of a cult classic. I bought this book because I had seen some positive reviewes somewhere.
Reading the book, you get a distinct feeling of Adorjan's passion for his topic, and he does so in a way that is both enthusiastic and infections. But the book has one MAJOR problem. And actually, the proofreader isn't the problem -- it is that someone didn't check the "global replace" feature. All throughout the book, every instance of the word "black" is in ALL CAPS... It is humorous and cute in some places, but rapidly grows old and turns into a distraction from the fine work Adorjan did in putting this book together. Although it is annoying, I still recommend this fine book and I hope that it does as well for Adorjan (a fellow Hungarian! :) )as his other book has done.
The Don Quixote flag on the cover is cute, too. And it's in BLACK...
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