Chess for Rookies is a fun-to-read, leisurely, yet well-paced guide. Assuming no prior knowledge of the game, International Master and author Craig Pritchett takes the beginner on a journey through the crucial basics.
Mixing instruction and good humor, this book is an ideal way to learn how to play and win at chess. And after all that, be ready to play, win and . . .
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Improve Your Chess at Any Age
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In August 2008 Andres D. Hortillosa entered the New England Masters. It was a brave choice for any player to compete in such a tough event, but it proved to be an inspired decision. He exceeded all expectations and was rewarded with a FIDE international rating of 2199. This, however, was no overnight success; it was the result of systematic work. How did he achieve such outstanding . . .
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Gary's Adventures in Chess Country
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Gary's Adventures in Chess Country is one of the most delightful and helpful chess teaching books that has come along in quite some time.
Your favorite child will love both the bright illustrations and clear explanations that are featured in this 152 page hardcover book.
Written by Igor Sukhin with an introduction by Susan Polgar, this book . . .
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Chess 101:Everything a New Chess Player Needs to Know
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In Chess 101, Everything a New Chess Player Needs to Know, author Dave Schloss sets out to make confident chess players from absolute chess beginners. This small, but powerful book covers topics such as:This little gem is written for teens and adults who want to get a basic understanding of the foundation of chess. It would be a great starting point for all players of a start-up . . .
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Learn Chess Quick: How to Play the World's Greate...
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Every day more and more educators are realizing that chess is a great way to help attention-challenged teens develop a capacity for disciplined thinking. Also, many adults are interested in chess and don't know quite where to start. Learn Chess Quick, written by Brian Byfield and Alan Orpin, is designed to grab the interest of those players and release their untapped potential . . .
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
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Learn to think the same way Bobby did. This is the secret. You will be put in increasingly complex situations where you will be required to think and move the way Bobby Fischer did during his amazing career in chess. You'll be a better player after you take Bobby Fischer's Chess Course. It works.
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Chess Openings for Kids
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For chess-players of all ages and abilities, it is vital to get off to a good start. This simple guide provides all the tips and ideas needed to play purposefully from move one. That's because these 50 Mighty Openings are the very ones used by chess masters and grandmasters to outwit opponents time and again.This book teaches the names and starting moves of all the main chess . . .
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The Right Way To Play Chess
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The beginners chess book, The Right Way to Play Chess written by D. Brine Pritchard and published by Globe Pequot, explains with remarkable ease and clarity the modern and internationally approved method of chess to the beginning chess player.
In this, the tenth revised edition of the standard work on the subject, Pritchard draws new inspiration from the latest . . .
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Chess (Hardcover)
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Chess (Hardcover) by DK Children books is a chess guide for the 21st century, this book uses computer-generated 3-D illustrations to bring the game to life, teaching readers everything from the strengths and weaknesses of individual pieces to more advanced strategies and techniques. What to become a Grandmaster? From the opeing move to checkmate, this step-by-step guide will help . . .
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Chess For Beginners
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In Chess For Beginners, Israel A. Horowitz, Chess Editor of the New York Times and former U.S. Open Champion, applies some of the ideas and convictions acquired from 35 years of playing, teaching and analyzing the royal game.
He emphasizes the tactical aspects of the game--how to recognize the big chance and hit hard when it occurs. He also stresses the ideas and . . .
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10 Great Ways to Get Better at Chess
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How can you improve at chess?This is the eternal question asked by players of all levels.
Which part of the game should you focus on? How often should you play? Should you change your opening repertoire? Whats the best way to learn from your defeats? So many questions ... and yet direct answers are hard to find. Its no wonder aspiring players are left bewildered . . .
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Comprehensive Chess Course, Volume 1:Learn Chess in 12...
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Comprehensive Chess Course: Volume 1: is a complete, easy to use program for teaching and self-study.
This is the first book in Lev Alburt's famous Comprehensive Chess Course. Learn everything from the basics of piece movement up to the value of the chess pieces, strategies, tactics, and opening principles. These practical exercises take the reader from . . .
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The Big Book of Chess: Everything You Need to Know to ...
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The Big Book of Chess: Everything You Need to Know to Win at Chess, is written by Eric Schiller. Readers not only learn the basics of chess and how to play it well, they also learn all about the game from world champions and their famous games. It also has all sorts of chess trivia and interesting bits about famous people who just love playing chess.
The Big Book . . .
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Checkmate Tactics
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If so, then Checkmate Tactics is the book for you.
Tactical play is the nitty-gritty of chess. It's the stuff that players are trying to work out when they say to themselves, "If I go there and he goes there ... and then I check him with the knight ... now, what can he do ... etc." At a social or weak club level, virtually 100% of games are . . .
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Chess in Action: From First Attack to Checkmate
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This is not your typical beginners chess book. Chess in Action explains how to play the game as if you were a general leading your troops into combat!
Written by longtime children's book author Paul Mantell, and International Master of Chess Dean Ippolito, Chess in Action effectively captures the excitement of the battle and helps you discover the thrill of . . .
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Chess Strategy Workbook: A Blueprint for Developing th...
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Chess Strategy Workbook: A Blueprint for Developing the Best Plan is a large-format, fun, comprehensive workbook and instruction book for children and adults ranging from those with a basic chess foundation up to the above-average tournament player.
Chess Strategy Workbook teaches you to be observant and take your time to discover the clues in chess positions, . . .
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101 Questions on How to Play Chess
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What is the object of the game of Chess? What is chess notation? How does the King move and capture? These and a host of other chess questions are answered simply and clearly in this indispensable guide for beginning players.Chess expert Fred Wilson has distilled an enormous amount of information into an easy-to-follow question-and-answer format that not only explains the most . . .
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Let's Play Chess: 2'nd Edition A Step by Ste...
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In this updated and revised second edition of Let's Play Chess, you will find the rules, the logic, some of the culture and history, and the basic principles of good chess play.
Chess author, and renowned chess master and instructor, Bruce Pandolfini, says the following about his book.
"Chess is by far the most popular board game in the . . .
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Checkmate for Children
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Checkmate for Children, by Kevin Stark, helps childrenor--any beginning chess player for that matter--master the most important skill in chess.
This book presents a systematic course on the most important and most exciting subject in chess: giving mate! Stark demonstrates how to use the queen, rook, bishop and knight, as well as pawns to checkmate your opponent. . . .
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Winning Chess Exercises for Kids
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Winning Chess Excercises for Kids is a fun and comprehensive workbook written for children ages 7 to 13. Full of original material and entertaining artwork, it's the ideal study guide for developing skill at the royal game. Parents and teachers are sure to like it too. The main part of the book consists of 100 excercise sheets with nine diagrams each. The positions include . . .
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Chess Exam: Matches against Chess Legends You Verses ...
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Best-selling and award-winning author, International Master Igor Khmelnitsky, gathers examples from Bobby Fischer's games that are educational, entertaining, and can be studied without a board.
In each of the examples you will take the seat of Fischer's opponent and be asked to come up with an assessment and a move. Based on your response you are . . .
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Chess Exam And Training Guide: Tatics
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The original best-selling Chess Exam and Training Guide scored rave reviews from readers and experts alike. It won the very prestigious Cramer Best Book award from CJA (Chess Journalists of America) and has been translated into French and Russian. In this sequel, the focus is exclusively on Tactics. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned master, this book will help you to . . .
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Beginning Chess Play2nd Edition
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Beginning Chess Play--2nd Edition, promises to help you learn how to play and win at chess in just one reading!
The step-by-step approach uses 113 chess diagrams to teach players the following:
Beginning Chess Play is written by Bill Robertie, chess master and former U.S. speed chess champion. He has authored multiple readable books for chess players.
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303 Tricky Chess Puzzles
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303 Tricky Chess Puzzles is a carefully selected, entertaining, and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles.
The authors, who are both veteran professional chess instructors, have collected or created 303 typical game situations. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority.
This book is . . .
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7 Steps to Better Chess
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This book is designed to immediately improve your game. Eric Schiller, a legendary teacher of bright young stars and champions, shows you—in seven lessons that cover every aspect of the game—how to rethink the moves you make and become a winning player.The book includes more than 55 key game situations, and is packed with diagrams and insightful callouts so that . . .
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Comprehensive Chess Course Volume 2: From Beginner to ...
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This second book in the Comprehensive Chess Course focuses on taking beginning chess players through deeper opening ideas, sharp tactics, and mating combinations. Lev Alburt's highly acclaimed teaching methods are in display as he shares his insights and favorite positions.
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Chess for Children
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Chess For Children, a 112 page hardcover chess book by Murray Chandler and Helen Milligan, is a charming way for children to learn chess.
With Chess For Children, kids will delight in learning the basic moves of chess - the most popular and challenging strategy game of all. All the rules of chess are clearly explained, step by step, assuming no prior knowledge. . . .
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Ten Ways to Succeed in the Opening, Middlegame & Endga...
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Give young chess players a head-start with this set of three books designed particularly for those who want to learn to play chess better.
Each book in the series uses clear language and lots of fun diagrams-- with cartoons to brighten the mixto teach basic chess principles in the three parts of the game.
The books are titled Ten Ways to Succeed . . .
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Ten Ways to Succeed in the Opening
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Have you ever looked at the start position of a chess game and wondered what on earth to do? Or do you get bored playing the same moves game after game?
This book has been written for young players who would like to play the opening better. As well as explaining the key principles, it also introduced a couple of exciting openings for junior players.
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Ten Ways to Succeed in the Middlegame
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This easy to read and understand book tells young players about the heart of chess--the Middlegame. It is written in a format designed specifically for young players and is illustrated throughout with many great diagrams and cartoons to keep interest high.
Young players will learn how to think about their position, how to spot tactics and work out combination of . . .
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Ten Ways to Succeed in the Endgame
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This easy to read and understand book tells young players how to play the Endgame better. It is written in a format designed specifically for young players and is illustrated throughout with many great diagrams and cartoons to keep interest high.
Young players will learn how to make the most of the few pieces left and how to get an extra queen. They need to . . .
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Chess Workbook for Children
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Chess Workbook for Children is a fun, comprehensive workbook and instruction book for children (and adults) who are new to chess or who are in the beginning stages of learning to play the royal game. Ten basic chess lessons and chess rules are presented in detail. Chess Workbook for Children can be used in conjunction with the book, Teaching Chess in the 21st Century (see . . .
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The King in Jeopardy: The Best Techniques for Attack a...
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The King in Jeopardy is a classic chess book with 251 pages that has been praised by players and teachers alike.
Lev Alburt, Grandmaster of Chess and three-time US chess champion, presents and analyzes the attack and defense of the king, with hundreds of game illustrations, dozens of problems and exercises, and instructive explanations and solutions.
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner t...
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master, is an excellent book for the endgame.
For more than 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to study the endgame. Now, for the first time, a revolutionary, richly instructive endgame book has been designed for players of all levels.
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Winning Chess Openings from Cardoza Publishing - 2nd E...
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Winning Chess Openings will help you learn crushing, powerful attacks like the Ruy Lopez--sizzling asymmetrical defenses like the Sicilian Defense--stunning openings like the Kings Indian and the Slave Defense--and so much more!
This popular book has taught tens of thousands of beginning players the key concepts of the opening, which is the most crucial part of . . .
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Chess Rules, Tactics & Checkmate! Ideas For Students--...
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Chess Rules, Tactics & Checkmate! Ideas For Students: Get all three volumes of John Bain's Chess Series for Students! Now is your chance to get some of the best instructional workbooks designed for students learning the game of chess and for beginning students returning to the game after an absence. No previous knowledge of chess is necessary. These highly acclaimed, . . .
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Chess Tactics For Students
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An instructional workbook containing 434 carefully selected problems presented in worksheet format. Chess Tactics For Students has been extensively field tested with elementary, middle-school, and high-school students over a four-year period. A versatile design makes this book ideal for independent seat work and homework as well as for chess club and classroom instruction. The . . .
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Chess Rules For Students
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Chess Rules For Students is an instructional workbook designed for students learning the game of chess and for beginning students returning to the game after an absence. No previous knowledge of chess is necessary. Parents unfamiliar with chess will find this booklet a valuable guide to their child's new interest. Chess Rules For Students is designed with students, coaches, . . .
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Checkmate! Ideas For Students
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Checkmate! Ideas For Students is an instructional workbook for students who have mastered basic chess rules, beginning chess play, and the use of chess notation. Checkmate! Ideas For Students is designed with students, coaches, and parents in mind.Checkmate! Ideas For Students uses algebraic notation to record moves, and follows the standard chess conventions of placing black . . .
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Whiz Kids Teach Chess: Chess for 16-Under Players by T...
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Today's most promising young chess players present a fascinating look at learning chess--complete with a step-by-step primer on basic chess play, large diagrams, and easy-to-understand explanations targeted toward novices under age sixteen.
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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids--Volume 1
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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids is the perfect introduction to basic chess tactics for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, this fun and instructive workbook combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles.
The main part of the book consists of exercise sheets with more than 1,000 positions, covering mates . . .
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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids Volume Two
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Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids: Volume Two Is a fun and instructive work book for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, it combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles. Slightly more advanced thatn Volume 1, its aim is to further develop a student's tactical skills.
The main part of the book . . .
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Play Winning Chess
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Play Winning Chess is an enthusiastic introduction to chess that will transform you into a veritable gladiator of the chessboard. Seirawan begins by explaining piece movement, chess notation, the rules of play and basic tactics. His examples, question-and-answer sections, psychological hints, and lively sample games help you learn strategies and play aggressively while having fun. . . .
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Survival Guide for Chess Parents
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In "Survival Guide for Chess Parents, Tanya Jones concentrates on the numerous aspects of being a "chess parent" and answers the many questions facing those with chess-playing children. There's certainly more to this than meets the eye. Problems are as diverse as 'How can I help in the very early stages?', 'How do I find suitable clubs and . . .
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202 Surprising Checkmates
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This instructive manual, written by two experienced chess teachers, concentrates on one- and two-move checkmates that encourage players to keep alert to new possibilities. Instructive maneuvers feature queen sacrifices, "smothered" mates, "quiet moves," castling, en passant pawn capture, and other techniques. 202 exercises. Solutions included.
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Chess Fundamentals--Algebraic
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J.R. Capablanca was a World Chess Champion and one of the greatest players in chess history, yet he wrote very little about the game. Chess Fundamentals, though normally for the beginning player, contains valuable insights that will benefit players at all levels of understanding, including masters. Capablanca explains: Chess Fundamentals is one of the jewels of chess . . .
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100 Easy Checkmates
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100 Easy Checkmates is perfect for beginning players from adults to children. It offers an accessible, fun guide to winning at chess. You'll have a great time reading all 144 pages of this paperback chess book.
Designed to help players learn without frustration or tedious chess notation, 100 Easy Checkmates presents easy one-and-two-move checkmates that . . .
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Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems For Play...
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Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems For Players New To The Game, is another excellent chess book written by Bruce Pandolfini. Now even beginners can reap the rewards of Pandolfini's acclaimed chess teaching system.
Over 300 problems, tailored to beginning players, encompass everything a player needs to learn, from the basic rules and vocabulary to . . .
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How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess
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Computers have permeated almost every facet of modern chess, yet few players know how to gain the maximum benefit from working with them. Computers function as playing partners, opening study tools, endgame 'oracles', tactics trainers, sources of information on opponents and searchable game databases. Kongsted provides practical advice on how to use computers in all these . . .
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Checkmate! My First Chess Book
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Learn to play the great game of chess with none other than Garry Kasparov, the World number one and the most famous figure in chess history, as your teacher. Discover all the various pieces - the king, the queen, the knights, the bishops and the pawns. Find out how the pieces move, the values of the chessmen, how to attack and how to defend, how to capture, how to employ special . . .
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United States Chess Federation's Official Rules o...
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The U.S. Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess is the only official rulebook for chess. Serious players at every level as well as chess club teachers, directors, and tournament sponsors should have it on hand during every match.
This new edition features the latest rules, including guidelines for the popular game of speed chess, an updated quick rating . . .
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Portable Chess Coach
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In The Portable Chess Coach, Judith Shipman presents a fun but thorough primer to chess. Packed with diagrams and valuable instruction, this is the ideal book for beginners, who want a clear and concise introduction that will keep them interested and entertained. Judith Shipman has been playing tournament chess for over 25 years. She has taught many after-school programs, as well . . .
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101 Chess Questions Answered
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Steve Giddins is an author acclaimed for his ability to write in down-to-earth style on fundamental chess topics. In this book he answers the questions that really matter to chess-players. His topics include many basic ideas, including some that have rarely been addressed so directly in chess literature, and thus are often misunderstood by club players. Where appropriate, the . . .
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Simple Chess New Algebraic Edition
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Written by Grandmaster Michael Stean, Simple Chess isolates basic elements and illustrates them through master and grand Master games. It breaks down the mystique of strategy into easy-to-understand ideas. Simple Chess concentrates on the simple positional ideas and strategies that present themselves in popular openings and shows how they might be developed with the aid of sample . . .
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Chess Words of Wisdom
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Chess Words of Wisdom is made up of the crucial information mined from over 400 chess books (plus hundreds of magazine articles, vides, DVDs, web sites and various other sources) all condensed into this one remarkably complete, and one-of-a-kind, chess book.
Chess Words of Wisdom quotes, paraphrases and summarizes the teachings of hundreds of experts, masters, IMs, GMs . . .
