Comprehensive Chess Course/How to Teach Chess to Beginning and Intermediate Players/Volumes I & II in One - Softcover
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This is a detailed, comprehensive guide to learning how to play chess. Primarily intended to serve as a manual for those teaching chess in schools and colleges, and for parents teaching chess to their children, or themselves, the book is an ideal starting point for anyone, no matter what age, who wants to take up the sport. "Volume I" looks at the chessboard and the starting position; how pawns, rook, bishop, queen, knight and king move and capture; chess notation; the centre; check; checkmate; castling; relative values of chess forces; how games are drawn; how to record moves; how to open a chess game; test. "Volume II" looks at the rules of play; chess terms and concepts; attack and defence; mistakes in the opening; opening traps; exploiting a large material advantage; double attack; pawn endgames; pinning; the skewer; typical mating combinations; other endgames; final test.
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Comprehensive Chess Course/How to Teach Chess to Beginning and Intermediate Players/Volumes I & II in One
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Chess Information & Research, 1987
ISBN 10: 0961720751
ISBN 13: 9780961720759
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Large pictorial softcover 11.3 x 8.5 inches clean tight and unmarked save for personal inscription on title page SIGNED by Lev Alburt; some very light page rippling on edges of first 20 pages from dampness, soft crease across upper outer corner of front cover, still Very Good condition; also included a folded TLS [typed letter signed] from Lev Alburt "Three-time U.S. Open Chess Champion". Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 022219
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Comprehensive Chess Course/How to Teach Chess to Beginning and Intermediate Players/Volumes I & II in One
Published by
Chess Information & Research, 1988
ISBN 10: 0961720751
ISBN 13: 9780961720759
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Comprehensive Chess Course/How to Teach Chess to Beginning and Intermediate Players/Volumes I & II in One
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ISBN 13: 9780961720759
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ISBN 10: 0961720751
ISBN 13: 9780961720759
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