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Mensa guide to chess
30 days to great chess
128 Seiten, kartoniert, Sterling, 1. Auflage 2003
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Learn how to win at chess in just 30 days. It's a game of logic and common sense, something that we all can tap into. What you need is the guidance of an expert, who makes it easy to understand and follow the moves and the rules, as well as the tactics and the strategies that will give you the edge over your competitors. Engaging explanaexamples, and review quizzes that let you approach each position as if it were an actual game enable you to succeed faster. Play like a champion.
Preface by Burt Hochberg:
Confused?
Chess is too confusing. All those different moves, all those finicky rules, all that heavy thinking, all that stress. It's just too much.
That attitude is what scares a lot of people away from chess. Too bad for them! Their problem is that they're looking at chess the wrong way and not seeing it for what it is.
Chess is a game of logic and common sense. Once you learn the moves and the rules, you can see how everything works together and can appreciate its beauty and underlying simplicity.
Chess was developed and refined by innuplayers and theorists over several millennia and in all world cultures. It shares with a very few other ancient board games - go, shogi, and xiang xi (Chinese chess) - a level of refinement and balance that has made it one of the most played games in world history. And its popularity is increasevery day, especially among children.
You don't have to be a genius to play chess. Children as young as five play in scholastic tournaments (for example, in the 2001 Interscholastic Championship tournain Kansas City, more than six thousand children participated). If ordinary five-year-olds can play chess, anybody can. All you need are the logic and common sense that came as standard equipment with your brain.
This book is organized in two sections. The first section introduces the moves and the rules. At the end of the section you will find some exercise positions to test your knowledge. The second section covers the play of the game, where you will learn about tactics and strategy. This section, too, is folby exercises, a bit more difficult than those that follow the first section. The answers to all exercises are at the end of the book.
By the way, many exercises do not necesconform to the order of the material in the book. If they did, you would have a valuclue to help you solve them. You're not so lucky. Their randomness lets you approach each position as if it were an actual game.
Preface by Burt Hochberg:
Confused?
Chess is too confusing. All those different moves, all those finicky rules, all that heavy thinking, all that stress. It's just too much.
That attitude is what scares a lot of people away from chess. Too bad for them! Their problem is that they're looking at chess the wrong way and not seeing it for what it is.
Chess is a game of logic and common sense. Once you learn the moves and the rules, you can see how everything works together and can appreciate its beauty and underlying simplicity.
Chess was developed and refined by innuplayers and theorists over several millennia and in all world cultures. It shares with a very few other ancient board games - go, shogi, and xiang xi (Chinese chess) - a level of refinement and balance that has made it one of the most played games in world history. And its popularity is increasevery day, especially among children.
You don't have to be a genius to play chess. Children as young as five play in scholastic tournaments (for example, in the 2001 Interscholastic Championship tournain Kansas City, more than six thousand children participated). If ordinary five-year-olds can play chess, anybody can. All you need are the logic and common sense that came as standard equipment with your brain.
This book is organized in two sections. The first section introduces the moves and the rules. At the end of the section you will find some exercise positions to test your knowledge. The second section covers the play of the game, where you will learn about tactics and strategy. This section, too, is folby exercises, a bit more difficult than those that follow the first section. The answers to all exercises are at the end of the book.
By the way, many exercises do not necesconform to the order of the material in the book. If they did, you would have a valuclue to help you solve them. You're not so lucky. Their randomness lets you approach each position as if it were an actual game.
| EAN | 9780806912417 |
|---|---|
| Gewicht | 300 g |
| Hersteller | Sterling |
| Breite | 17,8 cm |
| Höhe | 25,8 cm |
| Medium | Buch |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2003 |
| Autor | Burt Hochberg |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Auflage | 1 |
| ISBN-10 | 0806912413 |
| ISBN-13 | 049725012417 |
| Seiten | 128 |
| Einband | kartoniert |
007 Foreword by Bruce Pandolfini
009 Preface
010 Chess Notation
012 CHESS IN A NUTSHELL
021 SECTION I: RULES AND DEFINITIONS 21
021 Chapter 1: Preparing for Battle
025 Chapter 2: How the King Moves and Captures
027 Chapter 3: Castling
030 Chapter 4: How the Queen Moves and Captures
032 Chapter 5: How the Rook Moves and Captures
033 Chapter 6: How the Bishop Moves and Captures
035 Chapter 7: How the Knight Moves and Captures
039 Chapter 8: How the Pawn Moves and Captures
041 Chapter 9: Special Pawn Moves
046 Chapter 10: Check and Checkmate
050 Chapter 11: Calling It a Draw
059 Section I Exercises
062 SECTION II: PLAYING THE GAME/62
062 Chapter 12: Mating for Fun and Profit
066 Chapter 13: Chess Family Values
068 Chapter 14: Tactics I
071 Chapter 15: Tactics II
074 Chapter 16: Tactics III
080 Chapter 17: First Moves and the Center
087 Chapter 18: Recommended Opening Moves
092 Chapter 19: The Middlegame
098 Chapter 20: The Endgame
105 Chapter 21: Reality Check
119 Section II Exercises
122 Solutions
124 Where to find opponents
125 The greatest
126 Index
009 Preface
010 Chess Notation
012 CHESS IN A NUTSHELL
021 SECTION I: RULES AND DEFINITIONS 21
021 Chapter 1: Preparing for Battle
025 Chapter 2: How the King Moves and Captures
027 Chapter 3: Castling
030 Chapter 4: How the Queen Moves and Captures
032 Chapter 5: How the Rook Moves and Captures
033 Chapter 6: How the Bishop Moves and Captures
035 Chapter 7: How the Knight Moves and Captures
039 Chapter 8: How the Pawn Moves and Captures
041 Chapter 9: Special Pawn Moves
046 Chapter 10: Check and Checkmate
050 Chapter 11: Calling It a Draw
059 Section I Exercises
062 SECTION II: PLAYING THE GAME/62
062 Chapter 12: Mating for Fun and Profit
066 Chapter 13: Chess Family Values
068 Chapter 14: Tactics I
071 Chapter 15: Tactics II
074 Chapter 16: Tactics III
080 Chapter 17: First Moves and the Center
087 Chapter 18: Recommended Opening Moves
092 Chapter 19: The Middlegame
098 Chapter 20: The Endgame
105 Chapter 21: Reality Check
119 Section II Exercises
122 Solutions
124 Where to find opponents
125 The greatest
126 Index