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Starting Out: Chess Tactics and Checkmates
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- Book Synopsis
- 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 playerWritten by a distinguished chess authorFull of notes, tips, and warnings to help the reader.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781857444186
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Everyman Chess, (07 September 2006)
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Weight
- 255.15 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 228.6 x 152.4 x 10 mm
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