It can be a hard book for beginners.

Ones I've read/seen (I'm sure someone else will be along with a better more thorough list!). A potential problem with this list is that the strongest author Yuan Zhou is an ex-insei AGA 7d and not a pro. So these might not be what you're looking for.

That's fine. Chernev was not a Grandmaster, merely ( ) a National Master, but also an engaging writer, able to explain top-level play to a wide audience.

jts I'm curious about this as I'm not strong enough to know for sure but:

Chess for beginners always struck me as learning good moves primarily.
Go for beginners always struck me as unlearning bad ones primarily.

With the caveat that I never played neither chess nor go at a high level.

I think a ddk can learn a lot from commented kyu games, with the very important proviso that every bad move be pointed out, otherwise there is a tendency to assume it is OK and subconsciously learn it as an example of good play or good shape.

Well, who am I to say? I would think of things you teach beginners in chess as: development, passed pawns, open files, exchanges, forks, pins, tempo, interpolation, basic forced mates. In go, I would say sente, gote, connection, eyes, capturing races, nets and ladders, getting corners. That's just what occurs to me. Not sure I see the learning/unlearning divide...

Peter, you might go to one of the kgs rooms aimed at teaching and ask if anyone will go through a pro game with you. That might give you a more exact idea of what sort of commentary you are looking for.

Several introductory books include commented games or sequences aimed at beginners, but I don't know the chess book you mentioned so it's hard to compare. Are we talking about using top-level games to point out forks and pins?

jts I'm curious about this as I'm not strong enough to know for sure but:

Chess for beginners always struck me as learning good moves primarily.
Go for beginners always struck me as unlearning bad ones primarily.

With the caveat that I never played neither chess nor go at a high level.

I see it the opposite way

In Go, most bad moves only mean a wasted move, out of the 100-odd that each player might play in a game. In chess, a bad move by a beginner probably loses a piece, which usually means losing the game. So Go is more forgiving of bad moves. However, Go is more of a blank canvas. You need to be creative, which means actively looking for a good move. In chess, you can get quite far by just sitting back and waiting for your opponent to make a mistake.

So Go is more forgiving of bad moves.

Hmm... this area is a little deep. Go can be extremely unforgiving of a bad move.

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Kyu Games:

Double Digit Kyu Games by Steve Moffat (games of ddk players dissected and analysed but not in a lot of depth but it assumes very little knowledge or skill from its reader)

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