Chess book review, Winning in the Chess Opening, Nikolai Kalinichenko
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Winning in the Chess Opening

Nikolai Kalinichenko

  • Difficulty: Beginner, Intermediate
  • Category: Opening
  • Rating: 1200-1400, 1400-1600
  • Readability: 2/10
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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: 3/10
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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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  • 2020
  • New in Chess
  • Nikolai Kalinichenko
  • Pages: 464
  • Physical, Electronic

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