An Invitation to Chess: A Picture Guide to the Royal Game

Chernev, Irving and Kenneth Harkness

ISBN 10: 0671212702 / ISBN 13: 9780671212704

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1972

About this Item

221 pp. Eighteenth printing. The cover edges are slightly scuffed, and there is stress creasing to the spine; the binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. A beginner's book.

Seller Inventory # 012762

Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Invitation to Chess: A Picture Guide to the Royal Game
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671212702
• ISBN 13: 9780671212704
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Near Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

From Simon & Schuster, An Invitation to Chess is Irving Chernev and Kenneth Harkness guide to beginners chess and the strategies required to progress to intermediate levels and beyond.

An Invitation to Chess is perhaps the most successful chess book ever written, with sales of over 100,000. It is a basic beginners book, starting with the moves of the pieces and rapidly advancing to more complex problems and examples.

About the Author

Irving Chernev ss a chess player and author. He was born in Pryluky in the Russian Empire and is a national master-strength player and devoted to chess. He wrote that he "probably read more about chess, and played more games than any man in history."