Award-winning chess teacher and championship scholastic coach Pete Tamburro offers practical guidance for avoiding common pitfalls at the chessboard, as well as effective strategies for meeting troublesome openings and a choice of openings reflecting his focus on ideas over memorization.
A special edition of the acclaimed Modern Chess Openings is targeted to beginning and intermediate players and covers the most important chess openings, complemented by strategies based on the game's latest innovations.
The basis for the hit Netflix series! Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it. A reference to every viable chess opening sequence, including dozens of variations of classic, modern, and standard openings.
Do you want to learn the best strategies for a checkmate? In this accessible book, chess master I. Horowitz details how to step up your chess game. He also shows the tactical forte of each move and how it ties up with the overall strategical idea.
Perfect for people who just learned the rules of chess or more advanced players who want to gain some strategy, How to Win in the Chess Openings will give you the tools you need to win your next game. Every chess player needs to decide which openings he is going to play.
But where do you start? The risk of drowning in the turbulent sea of opening theory is only too real for beginning amateurs. Often your goals and ambitions will be misguided. Experienced French chess trainer Vincent Moret provides a complete, ready-to-go chess opening repertoire for White with a sound set of lines that do not outdate rapidly, do not require memorization and are easy to digest for beginners and post-beginners. To show the typical plans and the underlying ideas in the various lines of his repertoire, Moret not only selected games of grandmasters.
He mainly uses games of young, improving players to highlight the errors they tend to make. With many exercises to test your understanding of the ideas behind the repertoire. For centuries, some of the brightest minds in the game have analyzed the game and provided the world with tips on how to establish domination from just the first few moves.
However, opening theory is very broad and covers hundreds of possible variations. If you're only beginning to learn and play the game, most books on chess openings will be too intricate and lack the amount of detail required for you to fully understand opening theory.
Learn to Win Games From the Opening This book is the perfect guide for chess beginners wanting to learn about opening theory and improve the quality of their openings when playing the game. It will also give you all the information you need in order to know which opening to play under which circumstances.
Furthermore, it will help you develop your own playing style based on sound openings that have been analyzed and tested for centuries by the brightest minds to ever play the game. Learn From Games Played by Chess Grandmasters This book will also show you examples of opening theory put in practice by chess grandmasters throughout history which will help you understand the reasoning and analysis behind each move. As a result, you will learn to predict probable future moves based on what has been done in the past by the best to ever play the game.
So don't hesitate. If you want to learn to win chess games from the opening, now is the time. Just scroll up and grab your copy now! Analyzes the moves of fifty chess matches and examines what can be learned from each game, discussing attacking the king, defense, piece power, pawn structure, and endgame themes.
Speaking for all other players, the book is a "must. It presents opening ideas and games, often including the first game where each opening was played, plus the history of the opening, the names of famous players who played this opening and the ideas and plans on which the opening is based. It provides "idea variations. No other book does that, at least not in English and not to this extent. Understanding the Chess Openings.
Mastering the Chess Openings. Chess Openings For Dummies. The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings. In this book, International Master Cyrus Lakdawala explains the basic ideas in the French and examines the important variations.
This book tells you everything you need to know in order to take your first steps with the French Defence. There is enough theory to enable the improving player to get to grips with the opening without feeling overwhelmed. If you want to take up a new opening, First Steps is the ideal place to start.
Stop playing like a pawn and start playing like the king You already know just how enjoyable--and and challenging--the game of chess can be. For those who play, chess leads to a lifetime of fun. But how do you make the first move to learn the rules and transform from a pawn to a king? The path to a perfect checkmate is in your hands! In the pages of this book, you'll find an introduction to all the chess pieces including their strengths and weaknesses, tips on how to protect your pieces and prevent their capture, and guidance on when to attack and defend like a boss.
You'll also find a bonus tear-out card to take your new tactics on the go! Chess Opening Essentials is an accessible primer and a reference book at the same time. It gives a flavour of how every opening works and explains the similarities with other openings as well as the differences. Grandmasters Dimitri Komarov and Stefan Djuric, and International Master Claudio Pantaleoni do not propagate forcing tactical variations to be memorized mechanically, but explain what you should actually be trying to achieve when playing the opening of your choice.
This thorough, understandable, and very readable manual gives you a foundation on which to build your repertoire. Beginning and improving chess players should get this powerful book before they buy any other chess opening book! Do you want to learn the best strategies for a checkmate? In this accessible book, chess master I. Horowitz details how to step up your chess game.
He also shows the tactical forte of each move and how it ties up with the overall strategical idea. Perfect for people who just learned the rules of chess or more advanced players who want to gain some strategy, How to Win in the Chess Openings will give you the tools you need to win your next game.
There's no denying that the opening is one of the most daunting phases of the game for newcomers to chess. There are literally hundreds of different opening lines, many with unusual sounding names, and some of these go up to twenty or so moves of theory.
What is a chess player supposed to do: memorise countless variations? Don't panic! In Discovering Chess Openings John Emms argues that studying openings doesn't have to be hard work at all - indeed, it can be both enjoyable and enlightening.
The key to successful opening play is not simply learning lines off by heart; instead it's the understanding of the basic principles, and here the reader is guided through the vital themes: swift development, central control and king safety. An appreciation of these principles and their many offshoots will actually allow readers to recreate and discover opening theory, giving them the opportunity to choose the most suitable lines to play in their games.
Award-winning author Charles Hertan knows what kids really need to know and want to know about getting their pawns and pieces ready for action. Traditional chess opening books concentrate on the variations in different openings. Charles Hertan believes that for beginners and advanced beginners memorizing lines is not only boring but also a waste of time. He helps kids to develop a solid understanding of the fundamental opening principles. What are the properties of each chess piece, and how can they be mobilized effectively to work together and get a strong position on the board?
In his trademark humorous and kidfriendly way, Hertan teaches what you should actually be trying to achieve at the start of a game. This is a fun, easy-to-use, down-to-earth and accessible chess opening primer.
How to Beat Your Kids at Chess is a book that truly starts at the beginning, with the most basic idea of all: the straight line. This book offers clear explanations, opportunities to practice each concept before moving on, and a systematic progression of ideas. If you Take Your Game to the Next Level Are you interested in taking your chess skills to a completely new level, impressing your friends and opponents with your ability and chess knowledge?
Perhaps you are new to the game of chess and have not played it before, but you are interested in trying it out and unsure of how to start a game successfully. Or maybe you have given the game of chess a try in the past, but you are aware that your knowledge on how to begin a game of chess is weak, and this lack of information will ultimately stop you from being able to improve your skills.
The good news is that if any of these sound like you, then you have come to the right place, and your chess game is about to increase to all new heights! Chess Openings for Beginners offers you all of the information that you need and could want regarding the different openings that you have at your disposal in the game of chess, from the openings that occur on 1.
You will be amazed at just how much useful information is crammed into this book that you can take and apply to your next chess match. Not only will this book give you a greater understanding of how to play each opening successfully, but it will also teach you what you can expect your opponents to do in response to your openings, giving you the best chance of going into the middlegame with an advantage.
These are just a couple of the excellent things that you will be able to take from studying the content of this book. Inside Chess Openings for Beginners you will Discover: - A brief history into the origins of chess openings, along with the most important components that make up a good opening strategy. Information on the importance of the psychology of chess and why this is so important in the opening of any chess match.
Gone will be the days of going into chess games without a clear plan, only to realize you are about to lose too late. Purchase a copy of Chess Openings for Beginners today, and begin playing this historical game of skill and strategy, impressing your friends and opponents with your ability along the way!
Computers, Chess, and Cognition presents an excellent up-to-date description of developments in computer chess, a rapidly advancing area in artificial intelligence research.
This book is intended for an upper undergraduate and above level audience in the computer science artificial intelligence community. The chapters have been edited to present a uniform terminology and balanced writing style, to make the material understandable to a wider, less specialized audience.
The book's primary strengths are the description of the workings of some major chess programs, an excellent review of tree searching methods, discussion of exciting new research ideas, a philosophical discussion of the relationship of computer game playing to artificial intelligence, and the treatment of computer Go as an important new research area. A complete index and extensive bibliography makes the book a valuable reference work. It has been played by virtually all the strongest grandmasters in the history of chess, and today it remains a popular choice for players of all levels.
Lemos tackles this problem by providing a concise, easy-to-learn and practical repertoire that is suitable for players of all levels. Using illustrative games, Lemos examines the typical tactics and strategies for both sides, and highlights the key move order issues. A comprehensive guide of chess: history, famous games and players, rules, strategy, tactics, chess and the computer, documentation and literature, variants.
Chess the "Game of Kings" is a board game for two players, which requires 32 chesspieces or chessmen and a board demarcated by 64 squares. Gameplay does not involve random luck; consisting solely of strategy, see also tactics, and theory.
Chess is one of humanity's more popular games; it is has been described not only as a game, but also as both art and science. Chess is sometimes seen as an abstract wargame; as a "mental martial art". White starts with 1 Nf3 and intends to meet One of the major advantages of playing these systems is that they rely far more on general strategic understanding than rote memorisation. However, this does not mean that Black is not set difficult problems to solve.
In the modern era these lines have mainly been championed by Vladimir Kramnik and Lev Aronian. Both these players have frequently set very difficult problems for their elite opponents with these complex systems. This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge.
Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study any chess opening and at the same time improve your general chess skills and knowledge.
Fireside Chess Library In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase.
Of the three traditional phases of chess play -- the opening, the middle-game and the endgame -- the opening is the phase average players confront most often.
Unfortunately, though, many openings are not completed successfully, partly because until now most opening instruction has 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.
In Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps, Bruce Pandolfini uses his unique "crime and punishment" approach to provide all the previously missing explanation, instruction, practical analyses, and much, much more. The book consists of short "openers" typical of average players, arranged according to the classical opening variations and by level of difficulty. Also included are a glossary of openings that lists all the classical "textbook" variations for comparison and reference and a tactical index.
Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps is a powerful, pragmatic entry into a heretofore remote area of chess theory that will have a profound influence on every player's game. Thomas Engqvist is an International Master from Sweden.
He has over 30 years' experience as a chess coach and teacher. He has worked with players at world championship level in both junior and correspondence chess and is the author of two other chess books for Gambit. Thomas is the editor of the popular Swedish website Schacksnack. No Time for Chess? Is that What's Troubling You, Bunky? Well, have a seat How does one cope with devoting sufficient time to family and career while occasionally trying to fit in the odd game of chess?
Is your schedule getting more crowded and accomplishments less satisfying? Then take a journey with Jim Magner, physician, husband and Jim went through college and medical school, married and raised a family, and still was able to get in some serious chessplaying. It was not always easy or convenient, but he persevered and fulfilled most of his life's goals, all the while maintaining his sanity and perspective.
He is an average Class C player who developed a curious, yet often effective way of dealing with opponents who outranked him, sometime by hundreds of rating points.
He shares with the reader his methods and madness, with 31 annotated games dotting his autobiographical narrative. These games are entertaining and instructive, and often somewhat unusual as they illustrate how one may prey upon human weaknesses. If you enjoy rooting for the underdog, then this is the little chess book for you!
Over the years Dr. Magner also has provided advice about life and career to countless medical students and trainees, and in this heartwarming book, he also shares his tips for success in family, finances and life itself. This easy-to-follow guide provides a complete overview of the game of chess. With How to Play Chess for Children, little ones can easily develop their long-term thinking skills.
Kids can finish strong by mastering the endgame, in which weak pieces can become very strong, and complete their game with decisive checkmates! This book even describes techniques for avoiding a draw tie game when kids are winning a game — and trying for a draw when their opponent has the upper hand.
This practical strategy teaches maturity, adaptation, and smart success for children of all ages! This easy-to-read primer shows, step by step, all the information readers need to sit down and play chess ASAP! Avery Cardoza reveals the secrets of smart chess play including clever ways to save hopelessly lost games, and talks about his adventures playing—and beating—New York City chess hustlers, and taking on the U.
Chess Champion in a prearranged match. Study chess without wasting your time and energy Every chess player wants to improve, but many, if not most, lack the tools or the discipline to study in an effective way. He explains how to study and what to study, offers specific advice for the various stages of the game and points out how to integrate all elements in an actionable study plan. How do you optimize your learning process?
How do you develop good study habits and get rid of useless ones? What study resources are appropriate for players of different levels? Many self-improvement guides are essentially little more than a collection of exercises.
Davorin Kuljasevic reflects on learning techniques and priorities in a fundamental way. And although this is not an exercise book, it is full of instructive examples looked at from unusual angles. To provide a solid self-study framework, Kuljasevic categorizes lots of important aspects of chess study in a guide that is rich in illustrative tables, figures and bullet points.
Anyone, from casual player to chess professional, will take away a multitude of original learning methods and valuable practical improvement ideas. Understanding Human Motivation is a lively presentation of how factors such as biological nature, instinct, past experience, and society determine what we do.
Draws on many different domains of human behavior and links together many motivational factors such as fear, sex, consciousness, and rage. Illustrates the theoretical bases of motivation through real-life examples and case studies.
Written in accessible manner for use in courses. Strategies, tools, and solutions for minimizing risk and volatility in option trading An intermediate level trading book, The Option Trader Handbook, Second Edition provides serious traders with strategies for managing and adjusting their market positions. This Second Edition features new material on implied volatility; Delta and Theta, and how these measures can be used to make better trading decisions. The book presents the art of making trade adjustments in a logical sequence, starting with long and short stock positions; moving on to basic put and call positions; and finally discussing option spreads and combinations.
Covers different types of underlying positions and discusses all the possible adjustments that can be made to that position Offers important insights into more complex option spreads and combinations A timely book for today's volatile markets Intended for both stock and option traders, this book will help you improve your overall trading skills and performance.
The real secrets to winning the game of chess - and the game of life Chess mastery has been recognized since ancient times as an unparalleled way to learn political strategy, but until now no book has explored the life lessons chess teaches and how they can transform lives.
In The Tao of Chess, the author seamlessly blends the wisdom of a time-honoured spiritual quest for truth with principles that will improve anyone's chess game. By following the author's principles, readers not only come to enjoy the game more, they develop a habit of seeking underlying truth - whether in a chess game or a real-life situation.
The Tao of Chess is full of conscise advice, such as: Understanding is more important than memory Fortune favors the brave When you see a good move, wait and look for a better move Mistakes tend to come in bunches Trust your intuition; it's usually right Authoritative and easy to follow, this book will turn every reader into a master strategist.
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