You can play through the game on our http://streathambrixtonchess.blogsp... blog if you like.

"I'm partially sighted as a result of a stroke which has been difficult for me ... I realise I'm not as strong as I would have been a few years back but I'm hoping to improve."

too dry but instructive, i rate it 8/10.

in game 32 page 388, IM Crouch was modest..

I find that at times the writing seems a bit odd, perhaps partly because Crouch is Brithish and I'm American, but mainly because the books could at times use more careful editing. I don't recall having this impression of Crouch's "Chess Secrets: Great Attackers", perhaps because that book (or series) was better edited (although they are all by Everyman), or possibly I've forgotten.

Overall I like the books and they are well-suited to browsing without a board. Modern Chess is among my favorites for this and now Analyse Your Chess is too, although I've had it for less than a week.

In "Analyse Your Chess" I'm disappointed in the lack of a chronological list of games, although there is an index of games by opponent. This book focuses on the author's own games and errors which hinder his progress. The introduction and final chapter discussed this aspect of the book and the results extensively and I found those to be boring but others probably won't. That leaves the games, which I do like as mentioned, although in this (newly purchased) book I've only gone over a couple. I find it particularly fascinating as a very personal look at an IM level player's thinking and consideration of his weaknesses.

All three books mentioned have the "Look Inside" feature at Amazon.com. Reader reviews of Modern Chess shed more light on the editing issues I mentioned (one was titled, "Brilliant, but with editing difficulties"). The day I bought Modern Chess I was shopping with my wife and looked forward to stealing a few minutes to examine it while she tried on clothes. I was at first so concerned with a couple of examples that I feared I'd bought a lemon and looked up those Amazon reviews. Happily the book turned out to be a find and a personal favorite, and I will always consider books by Colin Crouch to be of potential interest.

On books of chess games annotations I calculate a "pages per game" (or "ppg") which I note inside the cover. This is a quick and dirty calculation but excludes non annotation material such as white space between chapters, historical interludes, or supplemental games. For these books my notes say:

Modern Chess 11.3 ppg
Chess Secrets 11.4 ppg
Analyse Your Chess 6.4 ppg (but at least a couple are just a page and others much longer)

Final note: googling ""colin crouch" chess quirky" brings up links that I found interesting.