This book quietly blends into the masses of beginner's books already available; nothing new is offered (though what's given is perfectly acceptable), and the pieces historical origins seem to be pale copies of the work offered in the far superior Play Winning Chess. Truthfully, this book appears to me to be a ploy to cash in on the World Champion's name. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but the result is rather run of the mill.

At the end of the book ten of Kasparov's best games are given; did the editors fail to consider that such complex examples would be way over the heads of the beginners that the book is meant for?

If you want to learn how to play chess, you can do a lot better than this.