Chess, known as the “game of kings,” is a discipline that blends art, science, and sport, challenging the mind and sharpening wit.
From basic fundamentals to advanced strategies, covering openings, middlegame, and endgames, our selection encompasses all you need to elevate your game.
These books are invaluable resources for players of all levels, offering lessons, exercises, and analyses of historic games that can transform your understanding of the game.
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Chess Strategy, provides comprehensive guidance on various aspects of chess, including rules, notation, opening strategies, middle game tactics, end-game techniques, and illustrative games from master tournaments. It offers valuable insights and analysis for chess players of all levels.
Learn and Master Progressive Chess
Learn and Master Progressive Chess, provides comprehensive training materials to learn and master the game of progressive chess. The book assumes basic chess knowledge and aims to improve imagination, calculation skills and provide challenging mastery for chess composers.
Beginner & Intermediate Chess
Chicago Chess Foundation
Beginner & Intermediate Chess, is a curriculum for junior coaches, covers various aspects of chess, including the rules of the game, checkmates, openings, middlegame tactics, endgame strategies, tournament play and more.
Open Games, discusses various openings in chess, including the Ruy Lopez, Giuoco Piano, Two Knights' Defense, Scotch Game, King's Gambit, Vienna Game, and more. It provides insights and strategies for both White and Black players, emphasizing the importance of rapid development, king safety, and knowing the theory behind different openings.
Chess Opening Fundamentals
Chess Opening Fundamentals, provides practical advice for starting a chess game correctly and avoiding mistakes in the opening. It highlights the importance of controlling the center, developing the pieces and ensuring the safety of the king. The book offers fundamental rules and principles for an effective opening play.
Fide Laws of Chess
Fide Laws of Chess, contains the official rules and regulations of chess established by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), the international governing body of chess. The document covers various aspects of the game, including the nature and objectives of chess, the initial position of the pieces, the movements of the pieces, the rules of the competition, and more.
How to play Chess
How to Play Chess, provides a beginner's guide to how to play chess. It covers topics such as chess board setup, chess notation, reading and writing chess moves, chess terms, and the move. of the chess pieces.
Delancey UK Schools' Chess Challenge
Chess Tactics, focuses on chess tactics and provides a series of questions and scenarios related to trapping bishops, knights, rooks, queens, and pieces. It offers practical challenges and opportunities to improve tactical skills in chess.
Modern Chess Magazine
Modern Chess, provides valuable information on the importance of endings in chess and offers insights into theoretical endings and their principles. The content focuses on improving the chess player's skills and understanding of the final phase
Chess Handbook: Course One
Chess Handbook: Course One, provides a detailed guide from the basics of the game to the special moves of the pieces. The manual covers topics such as the chess board, pieces, starting position, terminology and the movements of pawns, rooks, bishops, queens, kings and knights.
Rules for Chess
Rules for Chess, provides an overview of the rules and basic concepts of playing chess. It covers topics such as the object of the game, chessboard setup, movement of different chess pieces, special moves like castling and en passant, promotion, and general gameplay.
50 Chess and Mathematics Exercises for Schools
John Foley, Rita Atkins, Carlos Santos and Viera Haraštová
50 Chess and Mathematics Exercises for Schools, provides a collection of 50 chess and maths exercises designed specifically for schools. It offers a game-based approach to problem solving, linking concepts from chess and mathematics. The exercises are aimed at children between 6 and 11 years old and only require basic knowledge of chess.
Journey Through Chess
Journey Through Chess provides a comprehensive chess course for children, the author, who has extensive experience teaching chess, discusses the importance of teaching chess correctly and offers guidance about when and how to introduce chess to children.
Teach Your Child Chess in Ten Easy Lessons
Teach Your Child Chess in Ten Easy Lessons, is an activity book aimed at teaching children the game of chess through a fun and easy system. The book emphasizes the benefits of chess in developing critical thinking skills and offers tips for parents and educators to engage children effectively.
Helping your Children with Chess
Helping your Children with Chess, provides guidance and advice for parents on how to help their children learn and practice chess. It emphasizes the importance of parental involvement in improving children's chess skills and provides strategies for playing and teaching the game effectively.
A Brief Introduction to Shogi
A Brief Introduction to Shogi, provides a concise and detailed introduction to the game of shogi. It covers various aspects of shogi, such as the board and pieces, notation, rules, openings and castles, strategy, problems of shogi, proverbs, and more. Also includes information on shogi variants, shogi on computers, and additional resources.
Shogi Yearbook 2013
Shogi Yearbook 2013, is a comprehensive yearbook covering various aspects of shogi, a Japanese variant of chess. It includes title match games, challenger's tournaments, interviews, reports, photos, endgame problems, and statistics.
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