First published in 1942, the late B. H. Wood's classic Easy Guide to Chess has been successfully used by thousands of chess players around the world. Topics covered include: the men and their moves, starting the game, the importance of pawns, how to record the moves, standard openings, and much more. This introductory book has been substantially revised for the first algebraic edition, which will bring the game to a new generation of young players.

Gain the advantage over your opponent with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the worlds top chess players! Strategy is the ultimate secret weapon for championship players around the world. Drawing on his considerable experience in tournament play, International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan shows you how to apply flexible strategic principles to every part of your game. Using Seirawan's simple and effective planning and analysis techniques, you'll enter each game with confidence and energy, ready to play forcefully and intelligently the way you need to play so you can win every time! Learn to: Knock your opponent off balance with bold opening moves * Formulate an overall game strategy before the middle game * Interpret the motivation behind your opponents every move * Position yourself for a winning endgame * Diagrams throughout the book illustrate game positions, and you'll meet historys greatest chess strategieslearning from them move by move! Whether for reference during practice games or simply for pleasure reading,WINNING CHESS STRATEGIES is an information packed resource you'll turn to again and again

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.

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Ilya Maizelis's masterpiece is the definitive introduction to the game of chess. It has inspired generations of Russians to take up the game, including arguably the two greatest players of all time, the 12th and 13th World Champions. In the original Russian, this landmark work is simply called "Chess"--no other explanation was considered necessary. The Soviet Chess Primer is a modern English translation of Maizelis's witty introduction to the royal game. This new edition of a timeless classic includes an original foreword from the 2nd World Champion, Emanuel Lasker, as well as an introduction from the most celebrated chess trainer of modern times, Mark Dvoretsky.

Imagine you could learn the rules of chess and start playing your first chess game in less than 2 hours... Sounds attractive, right? Two hours seems to be an unbelievably short time investment to learn all of the rules, basic tactics, and main strategies of such a legendary game! Perhaps you are looking for the perfect beginner's guide to chess for yourself or a friend? Maybe you have never played chess before and need a simple and fast how-to book, or you know how to play but want to build on your knowledge with additional information. You might simply want a quick chess refresher course. If any of these apply to you, then you are on the right track! Chess is a complicated game, filled with patterns which may, at first, seem like random movements. The goal of this illustrated guide is to make those patterns clearer, and it is directed towards first-time players and novices, both adults and kids. This book will help you: ✓ Get familiar with the game, its goal and rules, terminology and components. ✓ Easily memorize all the pieces, their movement options (including special movements) and how they can work in conjunction to devastate your opponent. ✓ Know what common tactics are and learn essential chess tactical motifs that will give you a competitive advantage over other beginners. ✓ Discover the difference between tactics and strategy. ✓ Learn the three stages of a chess game, discover key strategy principles, and know how to put them into action from the opening to the endgame. ✓ Memorize the best chess opening for beginners and recognize elementary checkmating patterns. ✓ Easily refresh learned lessons using sections with summarized information. And much MORE! This guide includes 70+ images which illustrate the given information, along with easy-to-follow, step-by-step explanations that demystify the game - and give you an extra edge. Much like in life, in chess you will find that you gravitate towards certain ideas and strategies. Many such strategies are found in this book, and in some ways, this book is meant to give you a grander idea of the kind of player you want to be. This guide is your first stepping stone toward growth as a player, covering tactics which can be used throughout the game and strategies in the opening, middle game, and endgame. It contains everything you need to start playing and win your first game. Amaze your family and friends with the techniques and knowledge gained from this guide and start enjoying your victories today!