Chess

Love The Queen's Gambit? Start here for a fast and easy introduction to the amazing game of chess! Unlock the secrets of chess mastery and elevate your game to new heights with The Chess Player's Bible, an essential guide that combines strategic insights, tactical wisdom, and expert advice to help you become a formidable chess player. Key Features: Comprehensive Guide: Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player, this book is designed to help you enhance your skills and take your game to the next level. Strategic Insights: Develop your understanding of key concepts like pawn structure, piece placement, central control, and long-term planning. Tactical Mastery: Sharpen your tactical skills and unleash powerful combinations with a range of tactical exercises and puzzles.  Endgame Excellence: Explore endgame strategies, techniques, and maneuvers that will give you the edge in critical moments and help you convert advantages into victories. Expert Advice: Benefit from the wisdom of a seasoned Grandmaster as you receive expert advice on chess psychology, tournament preparation, and effective study techniques. Learn how to manage your emotions, develop a winning mindset, and make the most of your training time. Notation and Analysis: Learn how to annotate and analyze your games effectively.  The Chess Player's Bible is a must-have for chess enthusiasts, aspiring players, and seasoned competitors alike. Whether you're looking to improve your understanding of the game, sharpen your tactical prowess, or deepen your strategic thinking, this book provides a comprehensive and invaluable resource to help you achieve your chess goals.

Chess is 99% tactics. This celebrated observation is not only true for beginners, but also for club players (Elo 1500 - 2000). If you want to win more games, nothing works better than training your combination skills. There are two types of books on tactics: those that introduce the concepts followed by some examples, and workbooks that contain lots of exercises. FIDE Master Frank Erwich has done both: he explains all key tactical ideas AND provides an enormous amount of exercises for each different theme. Erwich has created a complete tactics book for ambitious club and tournament players. He teaches you how to reach the next level of identifying weak spots in the position of your opponent, recognizing patterns of combinations, visualizing tricks and calculating effectively. Erwich has also included a new and important element: tests that will improve your defensive skills. 1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players is not a collection of freewheeling puzzles. It serves as a course text book, because only the most didactically productive exercises are featured. Every chapter starts with easy examples, but no worries: the level of difficulty will steadily increase.

Sharpen your chess skills with winning tactics and strategies The skill and strategy required to win at chess can feel intimidating, but Chess for Beginners breaks it down into manageable lessons to help new players up their game. Start with a rundown of the basic game mechanics, then explore clear and concise guidance for the strategies and tactics that will help you achieve consistent success. Learn to position your pieces and coordinate your attack with- A comprehensive overview-Find clear illustrations and directions that show you all the components of a chessboard, how each piece moves, and how to read chess notation. 10 Powerful short-term tactics-Practice shorter sequences of chess moves-like deflections, sacrifices, and forks-that help you put your strategy in play and take control of the board. 10 Essential long-game strategies-Learn how to activate your pieces, keep track of the whole board, think several moves ahead, go for a quick checkmate, and more. From your first move to your last, Chess for Beginners shows you how to play a better game.

Kids will learn how to master the basics of the classic board game in this fun beginner's guide from professional chess player James Canty III. Become a Chess Champion is structured like a chess course, with knowledge carefully introduced as readers turn the pages - assisted by hilarious chess pieces illustrated by Brian Lambert. The emphasis is on fun: James Canty III uses mini games and chess puzzles to teach important concepts and avoid overwhelming beginners. Kids will learn key skills like how to play the perfect opening and trick their opponents to bring about checkmate. By the end of the book readers should be able to confidently take on their parents, guardians or grandparents in a competitive game of chess! Become a Chess Champion also introduces kids to the wonderful world of chess. They'll meet the chess player who didn't lose a game for 30 years, the priest who invented the folding chess board, and the astronauts on the International Space station who had a chess match with people back on Earth! As well as being great fun, chess also helps kids develop key skills such as strategising, patience, and logic, and helps them excel in school subjects such as mathematics. The cover features gold foil, making this book the perfect gift. Check it out!

Based on a popular ESPN Magazine article--a finalist for a National Magazine Award and chosen by Dave Eggers for inclusion in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011--the astonishing true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenager from the slums of Kampala, Uganda, who becomes an international chess champion. Based on a popular ESPN magazine article selected by Dave Eggers for The Best American Nonrequired Reading and a finalist for a National Magazine Award, the inspiring true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenage chess prodigy from the slums of Kampala, Uganda. PHIONA MUTESI sleeps in a decrepit shack with her mother and three siblings and struggles to find a single meal each day. Phiona has been out of school most of her life because her mother cannot afford it, so she is only now learning to read and write. Phiona Mutesi is also one of the best chess players in the world. One day in 2005, while searching for food, nine-year-old Phiona followed her brother to a dusty veranda where she met Robert Katende, who had also grown up in the Kampala slums. Katende, a war refugee turned missionary, had an improbable dream: to empower kids through chess--a game so foreign there is no word for it in their native language. Laying a chessboard in the dirt of the Katwe slum, Robert painstakingly taught the game each day. When he left at night, slum kids played on with bottlecaps on scraps of cardboard. At first they came for a free bowl of porridge, but many grew to love chess, a game that--like their daily lives--means persevering against great obstacles. Of these kids, one stood out as an immense talent: Phiona. By the age of eleven Phiona was her country's junior champion and at fifteen, the national champion. In September 2010, she traveled to Siberia, a rare journey out of Katwe, to compete in the Chess Olympiad, the world's most prestigious team-chess event. Phiona's dream is to one day become a Grandmaster, the most elite title in chess. But to reach that goal, she must grapple with everyday life in one of the world's most unstable countries, a place where girls are taught to be mothers, not dreamers, and the threats of AIDS, kidnapping, and starvation loom over the people. Like Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, The Queen of Katwe is an intimate and heartrending portrait of human life on the poor fringes of the twenty-first century.