Chess Fundamentals


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1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners


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Chess is 99% tactics. If this celebrated observation is true for the master, how much more so for beginners and casual players! If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training combinations. There are two types of books on tactics, those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain numerous exercises. Chess masters and trainers Franco Masetti and Roberto Messa have done both: they explain the basic tactical ideas AND provide an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme. Masetti and Messa have created a great first tactics book. It teaches you how to: ¯ identify weak spots in the position of your opponent ¯ recognize patterns of combinations ¯ visualize tricks. 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners can also be used as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises have been used.




Play Winning Chess


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'When most people learn to play chess, they usually memorise the movements of the pieces and then spend years pummelling away at each other with little rhyme and even less reason. Though I will show you how each piece leaps around, what it likes to do




LOGICAL CHESS


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From Simon & Schuster, Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained is Irving Chernev guide to beginners chess and the basic moves for every player to improve. In this much loved classic, Irving Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move. Playing through these games and explanations gives a real insight into the power of the pieces and how to post them most effectively.







Your First Move


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Chess Book for Beginners


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Beginning Chess


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Presents three hundred chess problems for beginners, each of which requires no more than ten pieces on the board and can be solved in one move, covering eleven tactical themes including forks, pins, traps, and direct checkmates.




Learning Chess - Chess for Beginners


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Learning Chess - Chess for Beginners With this book you can learn the basics of chess or the rules of chess quickly and effortlessly. Every single move of the chess pieces is shown in diagrams. The basic knowledge of chess is explained in an understandable way and with more than 150 diagrams it makes getting started easy for beginners. - The Chessboard - Designation of the Individual Squares - Designation of the Files - Designation of the Ranks - Designation of the Diagonals - Setting up the Chessboard Correctly - The Chess Pieces - The Initial Setup - The Pieces: King / Queen / Rook / Bishop / Knight / Pawn - The Value of the Pieces - The Rules of Chess - Capturing Pieces - Capturing Pieces using Pawns - Capturing En Passant - Promoting a Pawn - Castling - Check, Mate, Draw, Stalemate - Notation of Moves - Small Exercises - Tips for your First Game of Chess




The Everything Chess Basics Book


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If you're looking to learn about the game of chess--and win--The Everything Chess Basics Book provides you with the perfect introduction. Endorsed by the United States Chess Federation, The Everything Chess Basics Book is an authoritative guide that appeals to chess players of all ages and skill. From understanding the chess pieces to learning the basic moves to forming a winning strategy, The Everything Chess Basics Book teaches readers all they need to know to sharpen their skills and pick up a few advanced techniques and tricks along the way. The Everything Chess Basics Book also features information on: special moves; threats; types of chess; chess ethics and sportsmanship; notation, scoring, and timing; and more! Packed with hundreds of clear diagrams, The Everything Chess Book will have you declaring "Checkmate!" in no time.