Winning Chess Openings - Softcover

Seirawan, Yasser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735605149 ISBN 13: 9780735605145

Publisher: Microsoft Pr, 1998

Synopsis

An introduction to the moves, strategies, and philosophy of chess openings

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From the Back Cover

Start every game with confidence!
The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, you're shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces.
Winning Chess Openings explains how to: build a safe house for a king; estimate losses of ten moves or fewer; utilize the elements: time, force, space and pawn structure; plan strategy based on time-tested opening principles; employ a defense for Black against any White opening; apply an opening for White used by World Champions.
Winning Chess Openings will help you develop a solid understanding of opening principles that you can apply to every game you play - without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.

About the Author

About the author
Yasser Seirawan is the highest-rated American chess professional on the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rating ladder and the first American to vie for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. He is a three-time U.S Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion and an eight-time member of the U.S chess Olympiad team. Currently one of the worlds top-ranked chess players, he is one of only a handful of players to have defeated world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735605149
• ISBN 13: 9780735605145
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 257