Chess and Chess Playing Books
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Chess is one of the most challenging and exciting board games, and to exploit its qualities one must be aware of a number of specialized techniques. These books provide an introduction to the moves, strategies, and philosophy of chess, with clear explanations of the games fundamentals, instructive examples, question-and-answer sections, sample games, and psychological hints. Covers setting up the chess board, and explains the purpose and allowed moves of each chess piece. They explain what the King, Queen, Bishops, Knights, Rooks, and Pawns pieces are allowed to do. While these books were chosen mainly for start up guidance, with chess wining techniques and tips, experienced players may find some of these books of interest also. Additional books on chess or other board games may be found by using the browser boxes below.
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Books On Playing Chess
- Unbeatable Chess Lessons for Juniors
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- -Robert M. Snyder / Paperback 272 pages / Published November 2003
This excellent book is very comprehensive and the writing style is exceptionally clear and very easy to understand. The author,
one of America's most successful chess trainers for young players, having taught chess for over 30 years, has taken 24
selected games used in his lessons and turned the games into lessons themselves.
Some of the topics covered include; taking advantage of weak opening play, planning ahead setting up a transition from
the late opening to a winning endgame, taking advantage of White (or Black) square weaknesses around a castled King,
building up a Kingside Attack, opening up lines against the Castled King, taking advantage of an unsound sacrifice,
sacrificing material for long term positional pressure, sacrificing on 'f6' and 'f7' against
the castled King, learning to use the correct Rook along the 1st rank, building a strong Pawn Center,
taking advantage of weak pawns, getting the most out of the Bishop Pair, plus detailed analysis and important
opening lines througout all of the games.
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- Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps
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- -Bruce Pandolfini / Paperback 256 pages / Published April 1989
In this first complete instructional book ever written on chess openings, the author, a National Master, teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase. In this book, the author uses his unique "crime and punishment" approach to provideing clear explanations, instructions, practical analyses, and much more. The book proves more than 200 short "opening moves" typical of average players, which are arranged according to the classical opening variations and by level of difficulty.
Of the three traditional phases of chess play-the opening, the middle-game and the endgame, the opening is very important. Many openings are not completed successfully, partly because until now most opening instructions have consisted of tables of tournament level moves that offer no explanations for the reasons behind them. Consequently, these classical opening patterns can serve as little more than references to the average player. Also included are a glossary of openings that lists all the classical "textbook" variations for comparison and reference and a tactical index.
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- Beginner's Guide to Playing Chess
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- -Susan Caldwell / Paperback 64 pages / Published October 1990
This book is an excelent guide for beginner chess players. It tells how to begin the game by setting up the chess board, explains the purpose and allowed moves of each chess piece. If you plan on purchasing one basic chess book to start, this book should be that one.
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- Winning Chess Openings
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- -Yasser Seirawan / Paperback 272 Pages / Published September 2003
The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, you're shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces. Winning Chess Openings will help you develop a solid understanding of opening principles that you can apply to every game you play -- without having to memorise a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.
Play Winning Chess: An Introduction to the Moves, Strategies, and Philosophy of Chess from one of the World's top Chess Players
Yasser Seirawan, Jeremy Silman
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. Discovering how to engage in clever attacks and subtle defenses will take you beyond the thrill of competition into the realm of creative art. Play Winning Chess is exuberant and conversational, enlivened by personal anecdotes and fascinating historical details.
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- Birth of the Chess Queen: A History
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- -Marilyn Yalom / Hardcover 304 Pages / Published April 2004
Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. In India, Persia, and the Arab lands, where the game was first played, a general, or vizier (chief counselor to the king), occupied the square where the queen now stands. Not until the year 1000, two hundred years after Arab conquerors brought chess to southern Europe, did a chess queen appear on the board. Initially she was the weakest piece, moving only one square at a time on the diagonal, yet by 1497, during the reign of Isabella of Castile, the chess queen had become the formidable force she is today.
examines how and why did this transformation took place during the five-hundred-year period between the chess queen's timid emergence and her elevation into the game's mightiest piece. traces their origin and spread from Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and England to Scandinavia and Russia. In a lively and engaging narrative, Yalom draws parallels between the birth of the chess queen and the ascent of female sovereigns in Europe.
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- Chess Fundamentals
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- -Jose Raul Capablanca / Paperback 144 pages / Published October 1994
Text, photographs, and diagrams outline the essentials of chess, including basic moves, openings, and game strategies.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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:
·How to obtain and nurture a passed pawn
·How to get and keep the initiative
·Cardinal rules for rook and pawn endings
·How to attack using knight as the main force
·How to cut off enemy pieces
Chess Fundamentals is one of the jewels of chess literature.
This book is a classic. Every serious player should be familiar with each and every concept it covers.
The best sections, in my opinion, are 'Two Rooks and Pawns' and 'A Player's Motives Analyzed in a Specimen
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- How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course
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- -Jeremy Silman / Paperback 402 pages, 3rd Edition / Published January 1997
How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement in anyone's game.
In clear, direct language, the author shows how to dissect a position, recognize its individual parts, and ultimately find
the move that conforms to the needs of that particular situation.
By explaining the thought processes that go into a master's choice of move, the author presents a system of thought that
makes advanced strategies seem clear, logical, and at times, even obvious. How to Reassess Your Chess offers invaluable
knowledge and insight that cannot be found in any other book.
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- Reassess Your Chess Workbook
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- -Jeremy Silman / Paperback 425 pages / Published May 2001
This large workbook is a stand-alone companion to How to Reassess Your Chess. The author provides 131 problems designed
to test a player's strengths and weaknesses. These problems cover openings, middlegames (both positional and tactical) and endgames.
A detailed answer is provided for each of these problems.
Through this process of problem solving, analysis and advice, a player is led to discover the major flaws embedded in their playing.
Through this same process, a player is also led to an understanding of Mr. Silman's system of thinking about the game and how it differs
from many other popular systems of chess thinking. This workbook may be utilized with or without Silman's earlier book How to Reassess Your Chess.
It may be used in the workbook fashion described above, or its section devoted to answers may be read as an instruction manual in itself.
However one chooses to read this book, it will surely provide a wealth of wisdom and insight for all student players.
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