As others have remarked, this book is basically a collection of Plaskett's best games. While each of the games presented is spectacular and worthy of publication, a starting out title is simply the wrong venue for them. Plaskett's annotations are patchy, and I found the vast number of moves which passed without comment to be annoying. Furthermore, many of the games featured play best described as speculative! This makes for exciting reading, it functions poorly as instructional material. As a club player, I was looking for direct explanations of simple attacking motifs. This book failed to deliver. Everyman isn't exactly a beacon of quality. Even so, I'm surprised that they let this book out the door with the starting out label.