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BEGINNER CHESS BOOKS
Back to Basics - Fundamentals
How about a Nice Game of Chess?
The game of chess has challenged and delighted the world for centuries. In Back to Basics: Fundamentals, the essential building blocks of the royal game are presented simply and in an easy-to-understand format. With the expert guidance of chess master Branislav Francuski, you will learn how the chess pieces move and capture; the underlying principles of the game; how to spot and carry out simple checkmates; and understand the basic tactical ideas that are so important to playing and winning.
The game of chess has challenged and delighted the world for centuries. In Back to Basics: Fundamentals, the essential building blocks of the royal game are presented simply and in an easy-to-understand format. With the expert guidance of chess master Branislav Francuski, you will learn how the chess pieces move and capture; the underlying principles of the game; how to spot and carry out simple checkmates; and understand the basic tactical ideas that are so important to playing and winning.
Back to Basics - Fundamentals
Catalog Code: B0011RE
Regular Price: $22.95
Special Price: $9.18
An Invitation to Chess
A Picture Guide to the Royal Game
A Picture Guide to the Royal Game
An Invitation to Chess is perhaps the most successful chess book ever written, with sales of over 100,000. It is a basic beginners book, starting with the moves of the pieces and rapidly advancing to more complex problems and examples.
An Invitation to Chess
A Picture Guide to the Royal Game
Catalog Code: B0025IS
Our Price: $14.95
Chess 101
Everything A New Chess Player Needs to Know
Everything A New Chess Player Needs to Know
Learning to play chess involves more than just knowing how to move the pieces. Chess 101 is a chess book for beginners that provides a comprehensive overview of everything a new player needs to know. This includes... Types of boards and pieces, setting up the board, the value of the pieces, how the pieces move, including castling and "en passant", chess notation, the three phases of the game of chess, how to study chess, what a chess rating is and how to get one, chess clock rules, an overview of faster chess games, the mechanics of a tournament, rules and etiquette, and tips to winning chess. Chess 101 also contains over two dozen exhibits, designed to make understanding the game easy!
Chess 101
Everything A New Chess Player Needs to Know
Catalog Code: B0019OB
Our Price: $7.95
Portable Chess Coach
Learn How to Play and Win at Chess in One Easy Reading!
Learn How to Play and Win at Chess in One Easy Reading!
This entertaining guide for beginners of all ages is like a human chess coach. It clearly explains the basic rules and moves, opening strategies, middle game and endgame, plus the basic tactics and combinations to give you the winning edge. As you glide through the text, Judee helps you along with review questions, practice puzzles, and instructive games, and shows you the ten most common beginner's mistakes.
Portable Chess Coach
Learn How to Play and Win at Chess in One Easy Reading!
Catalog Code: B0004CZ
Our Price: $9.95
Chess Workbook for Children
The Chess Detective's Introduction to the Royal Game
The Chess Detective's Introduction to the Royal Game
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
The Chess Detective's Introduction to the Royal Game
Big Book of Chess
Everything You've Wanted to Know About Chess
Everything You've Wanted to Know About Chess
This book tells you all about the game of chess from the elementary rules to sophisticated strategies. You?ll learn how to attack and defend, set devious traps, win material, and checkmate the opponent. Schiller shows you how to plan moves in advance, anticipate your opponent's moves, and get the most out of your pieces.
Big Book of Chess
Everything You've Wanted to Know About Chess
Catalog Code: B0016CZ
Regular Price: $17.95
Special Price: $7.18
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Chess
Chess is a mental game, but you don't have to strain your brain to learn the basics - not with this guide that shows you how to play. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Chess covers how to set up the board, how each piece moves, opening strategies and variations, attacking themes and common sacrifices, and more. Photos of the board let you see strategies in action.
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Chess
Catalog Code: B0051OB
Our Price: $24.95
Checkmate My First Chess Book
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 moves such as castling, how to write the moves down and, crucially, how to give check and deliver checkmate.
Checkmate My First Chess Book
Catalog Code: B0140EM
Our Price: $12.95
Chess for Children
How to Play the World's Most Popular Board Game
How to Play the World's Most Popular Board Game
With this charming book, children 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. The lessons are reinforced by the inventive tales that George is told by his pet alligator Kirsty, self-proclaimed Grand Alligator of chess.
Chess for Children
How to Play the World's Most Popular Board Game
Catalog Code: B0157GB
Our Price: $16.95
