Tim Harding s beautiful little book will do nicely. While it hasn t as many diagrams as the old favourite, necessitating the use of a portable set for me, that is a price I m happy to pay. There are brilliant attacks and ingenious tactical twists. All the games in the book ended within 25 moves, the standard definition for a miniature game.
Some games speak for themselves and have light notes.
The critical moments of others are analysed in depth. Readers can enjoy masterpieces by great players of the past and present, such as Alekhine, Keres, Ulf Andersson and Peter Leko. I especially like the thematic structure of the book. Here he makes the timely observation that computers do not always find the strongest move and can be out-calculated in correspondence chess. Then we have The Black Museum , an anonymous collection of blunders and disasters more spectacular than those I ve seen yet the culprits are strong players.