[RobertJohn]

I received the book today and have read up to the mid-blind play section.

I have to say that so far it is well-written with a lot of hand examples. Moshman explains the reasoning behind his plays and offers solid general principles and theory to guide his remarks. The layout and organization is similar to the HOH series and this makes the book very easy to read and it flows nicely.

A plus in my opinion is that Moshman does not disclose what occurs after the critical decision is made, whereas Harrington shows the results of the plays which is a little gratuitous I think. I prefer to ignore the results à la these forums.

I would definitely recommend the book to anyone who wants to improve their SNG play. I disagree with one of the posters who wrote that this is not a good book for a beginning SNG player.

I think anyone who has read HOH would easily find this book very helpful; all of the concepts/decisions in SS (that I've read so far) are explained clearly and it appears that the beginning SNG player is the main target audience. However, there is a lot of detailed analysis that would be good for intermediate players looking to tighten up their game.

I look forward to reading the rest.