Chess for Children
Rules, Tactics, and Strategies for the Improving Player
Chess Handbook is a comprehensive book for beginners learning the rules and basics of the royal game and the intermediate player looking to improve by gaining a better understanding of chess fundamentals. Learn basic tactics and strategies with hundreds of suggestions and tips for players wishing to increase their knowledge of the game and see rapid improvement.

Chess Handbook
The endgame is where most games are decided, and knowing all the tricks will dramatically improve your results. Endgame specialist John Nunn has drawn upon his decades of experience to present the ideas that are most important in real games. Step by step he helps you uncover the key points and then add further vital knowledge.

Chess Endgame Workbook for Kids
Chess Opening Workbook for Kids is the second in a new series of books that help players gain chess skills by tackling hundreds of carefully chosen exercises. The themes are similar to those in Gambit’s best-selling ‘Chess for Kids’ series, but the focus is on getting hands-on experience. Many positions build on ones given earlier, showing how advanced ideas are normally made up of simpler ones that we can all grasp.

Chess Opening Workbook for Kids
Level One - Checkmating
You should go through the book chapter by chapter. The complexity of the examples increases throughout the book, and you shouldn’t skip a category if you consider it too easy. The book covers the full thinking process you should have when trying to mate your opponent, or when the situation of your opponent’s king may tempt you to look further in a mating direction.

Chess Calculation Training for Kids and Club Players
Learn Chess The Right Way In 15 Minutes A Week
To be the parent or coach of a young chess player is a wonderful feeling… Playing chess raises a child’s IQ, improves math skills, develops critical thinking…and gives them a ton of joy as well! But what’s the best way to teach them so that they not only enjoy the game, but also reach the full depth of their potential? Imagine watching your clever little chess nut gradually become smarter, do much better at school, win the occasional chess tournament — AND have tons of fun!

E-DVD The Susan Polgar Method for Scholastic Chess - Volume 1
The vast majority of opening guides are written for adult readers. This book is also devoted to the theory but it is junior. The structure of the book is simple and attractive: openings are examined using examples from actual games, each of which is presented in the form of a lesson with its own name. Several such lessons form an opening theme, and the examination of each theme concludes with exercises.

Chess Openings for Juniors
Learn basic chess concepts and color some of the most popular chess illustrations from the Chess Detective Workbook series. This book contains fifty basic chess lessons designed to assist beginner level chess players.

Chess Concepts and Coloring Book for Kids
Chess Tactics Workbook for Kids is the first in a new series of books that help players gain chess skills by tackling hundreds of carefully chosen exercises. The themes are similar to those in Gambit’s best-selling ‘Chess for Kids’ series, but the focus is on getting vital hands-on experience. Many positions build on ones given earlier, showing how advanced ideas are normally made up of simpler ones that we can all grasp.

Chess Tactics Workbook for Kids
100-Puzzle Chess Tactics Workbook
Parker's Chess Adventure is a story book/workbook that contains 100 one-move tactics puzzles for kids with a playing level around 1000 or less.

Parker's Chess Adventure
The book is intended for the instruction of children by teachers or parents, and is aimed at quite a lengthy teaching period, beginning with the very rudiments of the game. For each of use the present edition has been divided into two volumes, to which significant corrections and additions have been made. The book will be extremely useful, both for independent work, and for study in schools or in clubs.

The Manual of Chess Combinations - Vol. 2
The book is intended for the instruction of children by teachers or parents, and is aimed at quite a lengthy teaching period, beginning with the very rudiments of the game. For each of use the present edition has been divided into two volumes, to which significant corrections and additions have been made. The book will be extremely useful, both for independent work, and for study in schools or in clubs.

The Manual of Chess Combinations - Vol. 1
100 Amamzing Ways to Win in the Opening
Chess Opening Traps for Kids is a serious course on how to play the opening, illustrated with memorable and entertaining examples. By focusing on 100 key themes, Graham Burgess explains how to use opening tricks to our advantage. Every opening features hidden dangers for both players, so we need to avoid pitfalls while making full use of tactics to achieve the opening goals of purposeful development and central control.

Chess Opening Traps for Kids
The examples taken from this book have been used when studying by pupils at special junior clubs, many of whom have become prize–winners in Russian, European and World Championships for boys and girls, in both individual and team events. 750 best tactical positions, grouped according to their topics. Intended for chess players with ELO 2000 – 2400.

Manual of Chess Combinations - Vol. III
“Advanced Pawn Play” kicks off this book of 10 lessons that include Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Other lessons include the Lucena Position, and the King’s Indian Defense.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #6 Blue Belt Lessons
Four full-page endgame lessons reinforce the students’ understanding of important endgame ideas. There are 7 sections with 140 puzzles that include Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics, PLUS Essentials to get you warmed up, and Challenge Puzzles to push your brain.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #4 Green Belt Puzzles
An easy-to-understand introduction to the game, 10 lessons including Coach Jay's "five disciplines of chess" - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Comic-style drawings of the chess pieces help kids understand rules and strategies and make the learning fun.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #1 White Belt Lessons
Even Masters can learn a thing or two in these 10 lessons that include Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. This book features both battles (Knights vs. Pawns, Rooks vs. Pawns, Bishops vs. Knights) and the ultimate collaborative effort (B & N Mate). Readers will also get advice on how to build an opening repertoire.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #7 Black Belt Lessons
The Purple Puzzle Pack encourages students to avoid the temptation to trade for no reason. It also includes Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics, PLUS Essentials to get you warmed up, and Challenge to push your brain. Over 155 puzzles to solve!

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #5 Purple Belt Puzzles
The first steps towards being a real student of the game, with 10 lessons including Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Indispensable lessons include learning notation, checkmate with a queen and king, pins & skewers, and Scholar’s Mate (as White & Black).

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #2 Yellow Belt Lessons
The 188 puzzles in this book are for the serious chess player! The Essentials section tests the student on the five disciplines of chess and the Challenge section tests the student on the advanced concepts of the Blue Belt level.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #6 Blue Belt Puzzles
Learning from the Masters – Morphy’s famous game, and Capablanca’s endgames, with 10 lessons including Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Endgame strategy, pawn structure, and the popular Fried Liver Attack are also inside this book!

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #3 Orange Belt Lessons
17 Mini-lessons throughout the Puzzle Pack offer refreshers to help students solve the over 150 puzzles of gradually-increasing difficulty. There are 7 sections including Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics PLUS Essentials to get you warmed up, and Challenge to push your brain.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #1 White Belt Puzzles
Besides the 7 sections found in all the other levels with over 150 puzzles to solve, the Black Puzzle Pack has four bonus sections: Famous Compositions, Triple Loyds, “Are You Smarter than a Chess Master?”, and Blindfold Chess.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #7 Black Belt Puzzles
Learn the best placement and purpose of your pieces in each stage of the game in these 10 lessons including Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Readers also learn the main theory and traps in the Queen’s Gambit, plus much more.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #4 Green Belt Lessons
Students will be confident with their notation after recording their answers for many of the over 140 puzzles and 18 mini-lessons covering Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics PLUS Essentials to get you warmed up, and a Challenge section to push your brain.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #2 Yellow Belt Puzzles
Learn the main lines after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3, in these 10 lessons that also include Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics. Rook & Pawn endgames are the most common in chess, so knowing these is mandatory for the improving player.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #5 Purple Belt Lessons
Students’ knowledge of the material in the White and Yellow Belts, plus the Q & K vs K Mate technique are tested in the Essentials section. The 22 mini-lessons and 145 puzzles in the Orange Puzzle Pack reinforce Coach Jay’s “five disciplines of chess” - Checkmate, Defense, Endgame, Strategy, and Tactics.

Coach Jay's Chess Academy - #3 Orange Belt Puzzles
Win Like the World's Young Champions!
Super Chess Kids tells you all you need to know about recognizing and exploiting weaknesses in your opponent’s position. You will learn how to evaluate your position, develop a plan, and calculate moves of attack and defence. You will also see typical errors that even the best young players tend to make.
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CLEARANCE - Super Chess Kids
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You've just read a chess beginners' manual and learned the rules of the game, some simple tactics, maybe a few opening moves. What's next for the ambitious player? Everyone's Second Chess Book, of course! Acclaimed chess teacher Dan Heisman equips the not-quite-novice with the practical tools and knowledge needed to get started in competitive play, using examples from inexperienced players to provide a wealth of common-sense advice, topping it off with a collection of illustrative games and practice puzzles.

Everyone's Second Chess Book
99 Chess Puzzles - With Colorable Images
Beginner Chess Tactics for Kids is a workbook containing 99, one-move tactics puzzles covering hanging pieces, forks and pins for kids with a playing level of 1000 or less. Each chapter contains 33 different puzzles with the answers found on the following page in picture form. Also, to be more realistic, the puzzles are approximately a 50/50 mix of "white to play" and "black to play".

Beginner Chess Tactics for Kids
Finding Winning Moves
Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. It introduces the most important checkmate and material-winning tactics, as well as defensive techniques to the new chess player. Book 5 focuses on learning how to find the right continuation in critical positions of a chess game. In the first four books of this series, the reader was introduced to all the most important, basic elements of chess tactics to win material or to checkmate.

SHOPWORN - Learn Chess the Right Way - Book 5
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Finding Winning Moves
Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. It introduces the most important checkmate and material-winning tactics, as well as defensive techniques to the new chess player. Book 5 focuses on learning how to find the right continuation in critical positions of a chess game. In the first four books of this series, the reader was introduced to all the most important, basic elements of chess tactics to win material or to checkmate.

Learn Chess the Right Way - Book 5
Sacrifice to Win!
Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. Volume 4 is all about exercises where you have to make a “sacrifice” for a material gain or even checkmate.

Learn Chess the Right Way - Book 4
At last a beginners Resource for Learning Chess! This book is an excellent educational guide to understanding this magnificent game. It was written by the 2008 US Chess Champion and his student systematically laying out the foundation of their technical knowledge. Each chapter builds on previous knowledge helping the reader to advance the depth and scope of their understanding.

Chess! Lessons from a Grandmaster
From Vellotti's Chess School
It's beginning to look a lot like Holiday Checkmates! Grab a chessboard & put up the lights as you jingle-all-the-way to fun in Enchanted Chess Book 7! Students will enjoy testing their chess knowledge on a variety of key checkmate patterns.

Enchanted Chess - Holiday Checkmates!
Winning Material
Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. Volume 2 is all about “winning material” exercises. In each of the first six chapters a certain piece captures an enemy piece .

Learn Chess the Right Way - Book 2