A Funny Book Review (Of Sorts)
From today's Chess Today (issue 4950):
Recently I received an interesting book called "Sacking the Citadel" (Russell Enterprises, 2011, 400 pages, $25). This book, written by Jon Edwards, is devoted exclusively to the Greek Gift sacrifice (Bxh7+, usually followed by Ng5+). It contains 308 examples of this theme, which is probably about 300 examples more than one needs to study in order to understand how this sacrifice works.
These comments by GM Alex Baburin weren't in the context of a full review, but as a little intro to his revisiting one of his own games, covered in that book and by him in an earlier issue of Chess Today. It was a funny line though, expressing in a more pithy and humorous way the feeling I had about the book when I was sent a review copy three years ago.
Reader Comments (1)
I enjoy the Greek Gift sacrifice but I have similar doubts about needing a 400 page book for it. The one chapter devoted to it in Art of Attack seemed sufficient to me.