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King’s Indian Warfare

Ilya Smirin

  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Category: Opening
  • Rating: 1800-2000, 2000-2200
  • Readability: 5/10
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How difficult it is to read the book without using a board. A book with 10/10 readability is a bedtime story, a book with 1/10 is a puzzle book full of variations. Readability doesn’t represent the quality of the book.
  • Usefulness: 9/10
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Usefulness is a measure of how useful the book is for chess improvement within the topic it covers. Books with a high usefulness score should help you improve quicker than those with a low score.
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  • 2016
  • Quality Chess
  • Ilya Smirin
  • Pages: 352
  • Physical

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