What a disappointment!! I thought I was the dummy until I read this book. It turned out that I knew more than the author, or at least his editor. There are no less than nine mistakes in the first twenty-six pages. We're not talking about errors in judgement; we're talking about very basic, rudimentary rules. For example, The black pawns take their opening position at the seventh rank, not the second rank, as described on page 14. By page 26,I would have been totally confused and frustrated if I did not already know the basic rules of chess.An author who undertakes to write a book for complete idiots has a responsibility to be especially accurate in setting forth the rules of the game.