My father and I both have been using this book for about one week. I have found so many mistakes in the way it is set up - I am an advanced beginner I would say - rated about 700 by the United States Chess Federation.
I will start by saying that I learned to use my King in the endgame. The books shows me how to move the Queen a Knights move away to force checkmate without the King. This takes me much longer. The checkmate with the Rook boxes in the King in the book - I learned to line up the Kings and check with my Rook from my chess teacher which is so much better.
I also spotted that the same positions were reapeated two times in the book (see pages 7 Diagram B and page 46) a big mistake.
The sample moves for games sometimes shows where the mistake was made and sometimes it doesn't. I want to know where the player when wrong in the opening moves that allowed the checkmate and know what should have been done. This is not covered.
My favorite book covering checkmates called ART OF THE CHECKMATE is much, much better (though it used the old form of chess notation). Talking about notation of moves this book suddenly starts using a long form of chess notation toward the end of the book when they should have kept it the same.
I cannot help joking and saying I will give this book away to a player at our school who is good and challenges me, so he can learn the mistakes in the book and then I can beat him! I am sorry to put this book down (this is a pun) but I must be honest in my review.