Starting Out: Chess Tactics and Checkmates - Brossura

Ward, Chris

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1857444183 ISBN 13: 9781857444186

Casa editrice: Everyman Chess, 2006

Riassunto

Once a chess player has figured out how all the chess pieces move, what is the next step on the chess ladder? This helpful and entertaining book provides players with the complete answer. In this easy-to-follow guide, renowned chess teacher Chris Ward explains all the crucial checkmating patterns, plus how to catch out opponents with an assortment of tricks and traps, commonly known as chess tactics. There is something for everyone in this book: improving players can benefit from learning the basic checkmates and the key tactics such as attacking and defending pieces, forks, pins, and skewers, while more experienced players can discover the delights of advanced checkmates and sneaky tricks, ones that can flummox even the world's best players!

Learning chess tactics is fun and one of the quickest ways of improving in chess, and it's even more enjoyable when opponents begin falling for these tricks! Read this book and, with the help of a Grandmaster, any chess player will be ready to unleash the weapons in their chess battles, whoever their opponent is.

>An ideal chess tactics and checkmates guide for the improving player
>Written by a distinguished chess author
>Full of notes, tips, and warnings to help the reader

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Chris Ward is a Grandmaster and a former British Champion. He is also a highly successful chess teacher, having coached many of England's top junior players, and a popular author thanks to his attractive and humorous style. His earlier works for Everyman Chess include It's Your Move and the best-selling Improve Your Opening Play.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Everyman Chess
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1857444183
• ISBN 13: 9781857444186
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 172