Like a Grandmaster and subjects them to a healthily sceptical examination. Not an ounce of dogma in sight, and all the better for it. Ten richly textured chess lessons, each fitted around one deeply annotated game, form the basis of this well-explained book. Virtually each move is dissected for the developing player. A 1989 edition in descriptive notation of a 'catch-all' book.
Basic knowledge is assumed and soon the lessons become quite advanced.
There is a section of 20 well-annotated games. Soltis explains pawn structures by dividing them up into related opening families. There's an abundance of useful material here, but the welter of supplementary games given smacks slightly of space-filling. A reprint of Mednis' 1982 discursive look at opening principles. As always with the esteemed GM-coach, it's erudite stuff which dates less than you'd think.