Chess Books

Read the book and then you must try the recipe because it is a real winner! And easy to make, too.

The characters are unique, the plot is something new (sort of like Stephen King meets Pastoral Formation 101), and the depth of ideas refreshing. It's a page-turner.

I really enjoy chess and over the past year took the first steps to improve my play. This book played an integral part and taught very important "component" skills that I use on a regular basis -- things like how to promote pawns, use the king as a fighting piece, and use the minor pieces effectively in the endgame.

The book took a few days of study with Chessmaster to complete. For someone with a day job and many other interests, this book strikes a perfect balance between content and complexity, highlighting key concepts with useful annotation (as opposed to providing an unguided encyclopedic approach that I have seen in other books.)

Cardoza/Robertie combined this book with "Basic Endgame Strategy: Rooks and Queens" in their new 2003 release called "Easy Endgame Strategies". I just bought this new book even though I already have half of the content in "Kings Pawns and Minor Pieces".

The book is not imposing and was quite enjoyable.

If you find chess quite interesting, and you are fed up with opening theory, and want to study the endgame, this is the book for you! Here is all the endings you ever need to study; pawns vs pawns, bishop vs knight+ etc.etc So if you are thinking of buying a endgame book, don't think, buy Batsford chess endings at amazon.

Any Chess Player wants to get a strong background and improve his/her openings repertoire should buy this book. Anyhow its a nice companion for the tournament player. Recommended

good stuff about book: **it covers ALL the indian defenses from white's point of view, including d4,c4,Nc3, and d4,c4,Nf3 openings (no other book does this) **it is organized so that a complete repetoire against the indian defenses is included in the book (the authors did a good job of making sure the the reader will not get lost in a transposition and will not need to gather information from other sources to play the recommended lines) **it covers more than just the indian defenses. it also covers: the dutch (the recommendation is 1.d4 f5 2.Nc3), 1.d4 d6 and 1.d4 g6 (the recommendation against each is 2.e4, leading to the pirc and the modern, respectively), the budapest and fajarowich gambits (1.d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5!? 3.dxe5 Ng4 and 3. ...Ne4, the recommendation is 4.Nh3 for the budapest and 4.a3 for the fajarowich), assorted benonis (including the czech and snake benonis), the old indian defense, the englund gambit (1.d4 e5), the clarendon court (1.d4 c5 2.d5 f5), queen's fianchetto defense (1.d4 b6), and others

bad stuff about book: **it is a repetoire book so some of the lines might not be your style, but you still must play them as no other lines are provided **a lot of information and analysis is presented, which can make it hard to work through

general stuff about book: **the information is presented in game format instead of tree format (which actually why it can be hard to work through) **you must play 1.d4 and 2.c4 in order to stay within the recommended repetoire (i.e., if you play Nf3 on your first or second moves, you might reach positions not covered in this book)

this book is well worth buying if you are looking to play 1.d4. it has really helped a great deal with my chess openings.

(just a note: Burgess and Pederson also have a book in the format of this one but on the queen's gambit instead of the indian defenses, it's called The Queen's Gambit for the Attacking Player, it's worth looking into even though it is a few years old)

This is an excellent handbook for the beginning or intermediate level chess player. The book is divided into eight chapters: 1. Rules, 2. Tactics, 3. Strategy, 4. Scoring, 5. Playing the Game, 6. The Openings, 7. The End Game, & 8. The Next Steps. There are 160 total "lessons" in the book, utilizing simple chess board diagrams and algebraic notation . Even if you already know how to play, Pritchard's brief little book will help strengthen your chess fundamentals, and perhaps clarify certain aspects of the game you need help on. A handful of classic openings are explained, and the chapters on basic strategy and tactics are useful (especially as a reminder) for any level chess player. "Who should learn the game of chess?" Samuel Reshevsky asks in the Foreword. Everyone. Especially children. "The value of chess to a child is significant. As he learns it, he will find out how to concentrate. He will acquire a lifelong source of enjoyment and will discover one way to compete mentally with others. His mind will be sharpened." And so will yours, because it's never too late to begin chess.

This book have lots of nice artworks and diagrams in every page.

Contents is very easy to follow.

It teaches about rules, simple plans and tactics.

A good starting point for an absolute beginners both kids an adult.

This is a good first book. To be good at anything requires time,money, effort. This book condenses a solid beginning to about $7. Not bad! I'm rated at about 1460 and I find the reading easy, fast, clear and accurate! I recommend this as a first book. If you know how the pieces move, try a chess club, it doesn't cost anything and you might make a friend. If it's Bill Robertie, you hit the lottery.

I wonderful concept for a chess book! Spiral bound, it has 1 diagram for every move so that you can follow some of the greatest games ever played without having a chessboard! Great reading on the go or in bed!