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I have been reading 501 for the last month or so, and think it excellent.
Each area of the game is headed by a chapter which provides some general
guidelines. In the chapter you will find a series of problems to solve,
but the meat of the book is in the solutions where you not only find the
reasons supporting the author's choice, but sometimes even advice for
similar situations. Ex:
Position 41 (excerpt from solution)
"A lot of players get panicky when they are holding the 18-point
anchor, and look for a chance to run off it as soon as possible. They
remember all the games where they held that anchor too long, and lost
by getting trapped off it at an awkward moment. (...) The trick is to
grab the 18-point, then try to build a good home board. When your
board is at maximum strength, then you run from the 18-point."
I think the book is a colossal value for the money spent. Mind you, as
he explains the reasoning behind the moves, I don't just write my
solutions down in a notebook, but all my reasoning as well. This way I
can compare notes and see which part of my approach was correct, and
which wasn't. It takes far longer to go through the problems, but I
think it is a better approach than simply writing one's moves and
seeing if one got it right.
Albert Silver
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