If you wanna learn to lose really fast this is a great book for that. Maybe it will help you beat someone rated in the 600-900 range at best. I really do not know why they print books that are this bad. I think it is to make sure some people just never get better at chess. By some games that I play it seems like it has worked on a few people. Basically the only value from this book is comical. Not cuz of anything the writer wrote, but cuz its just so bad. You look in book and at positions and some of the moves. Hard to stop from bursting out in laughter over how absurd and bad the moves are. So throw your money away on this book if thats what you wanna do. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. You can drop your kid off at school but can't make him learn. Enjoy this review, its written better than this book.