What are your impressions of the usefullness of this book. I'm not at a point yet
where I feel comfortable trying to learn book lines, and most of the people I
play against don't follow them anyway. But I could sure use some better
understanding of what I'm doing in the first, say, 7 or 8 moves. It seems like
I'm always developing along the same line... pawns at e4 and d3, both knights
out, maybe the Queen's bishop at e3 and the Queen at e2 or whatever. I don't
really know what to attempt, so I try to stay conservative until I'm attacked...
which isn't really too thrilling.
Again, I'd like to build to a point where I understand variations of a handfull
of openings, but I don't just want to start memorizing things. I'd like to learn
'why'. Fine's book seems like just the thing. Thoughts?