How To Win At Chess: From First Moves to Checkmate

This is a very good and very well written book, and Daniel King is legendary for his ability to make simple ideas dramatic and exciting, and equally to deliver complexity accessibly. The instructional value is high, and it's interesting too. If you're looking for a chess book to put in a school library, this may well be the one to get.However, the diagrams let this down a little. For example, in the copy I have in front of me there are some outright mistakes: in diagram 8 on page 27 the white knight on c3 shouldn't be there, as it has just captured a black knight on e4 and then itself been captured by the black queen, so can't still be on c3, and then in diagram 1 on page 42 there is a black queen missing from g5 which is supposed to get captured a couple of moves later. Also, in places, pieces of the same kind are different sizes, both on the 2d boards, and separately, on the '3d' boards. The arrows are also really wonky!My 9-year-old likes this book, and so do I, but I wish they'd taken their time a bit more on the diagrams to get them exactly right. Possibly this copy is from an early print run and they'll fix all the diagrams in the later print runs? Hope so.