How to Win at Chess: From First Moves to Checkmate

Daniel King

ISBN 10: 0753478285 / ISBN 13: 9780753478288

Published by Kingfisher, 2023

About this Item

Written by Grandmaster Daniel King, How To Win At Chess is the essential guide to the game for young players. It introduces each piece and its moves, explains key principles such as check and how to open a game, before exploring tricks such as forks, pins, and skewers. With a fresh, contemporary new design, it's packed with graded test positions and training exercises to help young players improve their game as they progress through the book. What's more, readers can brush up on the fascinating history of chess, with features on legendary matches and the greatest players, including the current world champion, Magnus Carlsen. Chess has been revolutionized in recent years--thanks to the success of Netflix's world-beating The Queen's Gambit, the rise of chess streaming on Twitch, the desire for self-improvement during lockdown, and the global appeal of Magnus Carlsen, the youngest player ever to top the world rankings--and its newfound popularity with young and old alike shows no sign of waning.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Win at Chess: From First Moves to Checkmate
• Publisher: Kingfisher
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753478285
• ISBN 13: 9780753478288
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Written by Grandmaster Daniel King, How To Win At Chess is the essential guide to the game for young players. It introduces each piece and its moves, explains key principles such as check and how to open a game, before exploring tricks such as forks, pins, and skewers.

With a fresh, contemporary new design, it’s packed with graded test positions and training exercises to help young players improve their game as they progress through the book. What’s more, readers can brush up on the fascinating history of chess, with features on legendary matches and the greatest players, including the current world champion, Magnus Carlsen.

Chess has been revolutionized in recent years―thanks to the success of Netflix’s world-beating The Queen’s Gambit, the rise of chess streaming on Twitch, the desire for self-improvement during lockdown, and the global appeal of Magnus Carlsen, the youngest player ever to top the world rankings―and its newfound popularity with young and old alike shows no sign of waning.

About the Author

Daniel King is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Cardiff, UK. His publications include The Earliest Syriac Version of Aristotle's Categories (2010) and The Syriac Versions of the Writings of Cyril of Alexandria (2008).