The Berlin Defence Unraveled

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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.
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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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After a long battle in the Berlin defence, we have reached this position. Dark-squared bishops are off the board and neither side has made very significant progress yet. Which side would you prefer?

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