Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Brilliant Beginner's Book

(Review of the 1970's or so Dutch translation)This is a brilliant book. It teaches the basics of 'chess thinking', that is, looking at a situation and analyzing it for a certain short term goal (in this book: mate, but the skill can be used everywhere in the game). It does not cover grand strategy (but one can wonder if a book could do that), but it does teach a very good start in 'being able to read a position'. The more advanced pattern recognition, again, it does not teach. This is, after all, a beginner's book.The book largely consists of positions with a question. What is sometimes uncanny is that you think of a wrong answer ad on the next page you find the exact explanation of what you missed.When starting with chess (and even re-reading it a few years later) I found it improved my beginner's play tremendously.