How To Play Winning Chess: History, Rules, Skills & Tactics: A Complete Illustrated Guide To The Game - Including History, The Greatest Games, The Most … Success, With Over 700 Colour Illustrations A comprehensive, practical guide to playing chess from beginner to more advanced play with over 700 colour photographs and artworks.
Customer Review: Best chess book I’ve ever read.
This is an excellent and enjoyable chess primer that will both initiate the beginning player and even teach a lot to someone like myself who has been playing for a long time. The pictures are beautiful, the lessons are clear and instructive and the chapters on the game’s history and culture are fascinating. I for one, after 27 years of playing, finally learned chess notation from this book. This book introduces the novice to the notation system in an intelligent way by incorporating_visual_representations of the chess pieces along with standard notation. For example, it will list the first few moves of a game with the notation symbols and then_show_a picture of where all the pieces would then be positioned on the board. I found that kind of mixed approach a compassionate method of immersing the beginner into the intimidating alphanumeric language of chess. I also never truly understood the various strategies of the game until I read this book. Of course, I’d heard the names “Sicilian Defense” or “Ruy Lopez”, and have surely played those strategies without knowing what they were called, but this book gave me a solid education in the nomenclature of the strategic options and an overview of the logic behind them. Overall, this book should be in the library of every amateur chess player.

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