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The book consists of a brief review of the method (about 40 pages), then about 80 pages of problems, then a couple of hundred pages discussing the solutions. It is the solutions section which is so valuable: rather than a dry "the correct move is Nxe5" or "Option A is the right choice" you sometimes get in quizzes, there is a very substantial discussion and analysis of each case. This gives the book an interactive feel, in that your ideas are in effect compared and contrasted with those in the "right" line.
The bulk of the book is about strategy rather than tactics. A wide variety of situations are covered, in all three of the opening, middlegame and endgame.
It strikes me that this book might be a better place for youngsters to start on Silman's ideas than his other more deeply instructional books, since youngsters are usually impatient to "get on with it", and here they can do just that and receive a lot of instruction and feedback at the same time.
You will learn to create and use imbalances to devise plans and find moves in every stage of the game because the entire Workbook asks you to do nothing else. This isn't passive learning. It's more like, "Pop quiz, hot shot! Black has just played ...Nh5 and is going to win the two bishops. What do you do? What do you do?"
You don't need to have read the earlier books since Silman gives a crash course on imbalances. If you've read them and felt you'd understood them (and yet didn't see any improvement as I had), this is another opportunity to get it right. Everyone has their own level of chess incompetence beyond which they will be unlikely to improve, and I may have already reached mine and you yours. But how can you be sure? "We can not know what is inevitable until we try good and hard to stop it."
It's a fun read, too. (By the way, I actually worked through the entire book before I decided to "review" it. Maybe some of the other reviewers should've tried doing that.)
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