How Good Is Your Chess?
How Good Is Your Chess?

Author: Larry Evans

Publisher: Cardoza

Published: 2004-04-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781580421263

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Grandmaster and Hall of Fame chess legend Larry Evans, draws upon his vast experience as 5-time USA champion, author of 25 books, and Bobby Fischer's second, to present a fun and challenging new approach for chess players. Readers test their skills against 100 fascinating positions from actual games and must choose the best move among three choices. Each correct answer earns the reader 25 points; no points are given for incorrect choices. At the end of the series, players can calculate their own rating, be it absolute beginner or even grandmaster! In the solutions section, Evans carefully explains the proper thinking a player must employ to approach the position and why both alternatives are inferior. Readers not only find their true chess level, but get a complete course in exactly where they can go wrong.

Chess Endgame Quiz
Chess Endgame Quiz

Author: Larry Evans

Publisher: Cardoza

Published: 2002-11-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781580420747

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This challenging book features two hundred challenges in the multiple choice format that has proved so popular for chess-playing readers. These instructive, elegant and entertaining positions will not only challenge and entertain you, but will also teach you how to improve your endgame while trying to find the best move of the three choices presented. The problems are divided into various sections, such as king and pawn endings, minor piece endings, queen endings, and rook and pawn endings, so that players can concentrate on areas for either training and learning processes, or just flat out fun. Endgame study is so important to players, but with challenges such as these, it's not work, but fun. What is the best move? Take the plunge and find out! 304 pages

What's the Best Move?
What's the Best Move?

Author: Larry Evans

Publisher: Touchstone

Published: 1995-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780671511593

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Through the use of instructive quizzes, Evans teaches players to initiate moves, try out new ideas based on the objectives they are seeking in a specific game, and evaluate their progress and ingenuity along the way.

500 Chess Questions Answered
500 Chess Questions Answered

Author: Andrew Soltis

Publisher: Batsford Books

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1849947597

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An insightful new book that is perfect for newcomers to chess inspired by Netflix's Queen's Gambit. Written by one of the best chess communicators in the business, chess master and chess journalist Andy Soltis divulges practical advice and explains technical terms that chess books often overlook. From learning how to train your mind with chess information to choosing the best chess opening, dip in and out of this invaluable guide to improve your chess in a minutes. Chess questions answered in this book include: Is there a best way to study chess? How do I know if I have a natural talent? How important is chess memory and how can I train mine? How long should I think before choosing a move? Is there a proper way to think? Can I think like a chess computer? How do I develop chess intuition? Don't try to swallow too much information in one sitting. Dip in and out of these great chess questions to better understand the game and let the improvement happen incrementally.

Chess
Chess

Author: László Polgár

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781579129507

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Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.

Chess for Educators
Chess for Educators

Author: Karel van Delft

Publisher: New In Chess

Published: 2021-04-02

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 9056919431

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Chess has the rare quality that children love it despite the fact that it is good for them. Playing chess is just like life: you have to make plans, take decisions, be creative, deal with challenges, handle disappointments, interact with others and evaluate your actions. Psychologist and chess teacher Karel van Delft has spent a large part of his life studying the benefits of chess in education. In this guide he provides access to the underlying scientific research and presents the didactical methods of how to effectively apply these findings in practice. Van Delft has created a dependable toolkit for teachers and scholastic chess organizers. What can teachers do to improve their instruction? How (un)important is talent? How do you support a special needs group? How do you deal with parents? And with school authorities? What are the best selling points of a chess program? Boys and girls, does it make a difference? How do ‘chess in schools' programs fare in different countries? This is not a book on chess rules, with lots of moves and diagrams, but it points the way to where good technical chess improvement content can be found. Van Delft offers a wealth of practical advice on how to launch and present a chess program and how to apply the most effective didactics in order for kids to build critical life skills through learning chess.

ChessBase Complete
ChessBase Complete

Author: Jon Edwards

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2019-10-04

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 194985910X

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Updating a Classic! Five years ago, when ChessBase Complete was released, it was an instant sensation. For the first time ever, a comprehensive manual for one of the most popular chess programs was available. It covered ChessBase through version 12. Since then, ChessBase has introduced three new versions and a remarkable (and free) suite of online tools for the world wide web. Many new and powerful functions have been added, all with an eye towards ease-of-use. This Supplement updates the original ChessBase Complete, and once again gives the chess community the opportunity to make the most of this remarkable software. Searches are much more powerful, analysis has been automated, and we can now take full advantage of storing and sharing our data in a “chess cloud.” While this Supplement should be helpful to all ChessBase users, it builds upon the original edition. If you do not already have the first edition, you may wish to consider getting it. ChessBase Complete and this Supplement should make your chess time much more productive and enjoyable and, with the software at hand, vastly accelerate your chess improvement. About the Author: Jon Edwards recently qualified for the World Correspondence Chess Championship final round. He won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999. He is a four-time winner of the APCT (American Postal Chess Tournaments) Championship and has been awarded the APCT Game of the Year Award twice. He received his correspondence International Master (IM) in 1997, his Senior International Master (SIM) in 1999. He is currently fighting for his final grandmaster norm in the prestigious ICCF Spanish Masters. He has competed on the United States Correspondence Chess Olympiad team competing, reaching the final round. His correspondence ICCF rating places him the top 100 correspondence chess players worldwide. In addition to the extremely popular ChessBase Complete, Jon has written more than a dozen chess books, including The Chess Analyst (Thinkers Press 1999) which chronicles the success in the US championship; Teach Yourself Visually: Chess (Wiley 2006); a photographically based chess primer; and Sacking the Citadel: The History, Theory, and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice (Russell Enterprises 2011). He also writes a regular column on Chess Technology for the American Chess Magazine.

Chess for Beginners
Chess for Beginners

Author: Chess Akt

Publisher: Chess Akt

Published:

Total Pages: 1208

ISBN-13:

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Chess for Beginners

600 Easy Chess Puzzles to progress quickly

These chess puzzles are for beginners.
In order to progress, once the rules have been assimilated, it is necessary to acquire some elementary reference points. In particular, you must have a good understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each chess piece.
To do this, you need to practice. You need to practice with well-chosen chess problems like the ones in this book. Each day, a few chess problems... and, day after day, week after week, the subtleties of each piece will become obvious. Gradually, as one sharpens the blade of a sword, your tactical sense will become sharper. Thus, you will be able to strike decisive blows and inflict significant damage on your opponents.

In this large format book, you will find:

  • 600 exercises with their solutions at the bottom of the page,
  • Only very easy Mate-in-1 exercises,
  • Only exercises with few pieces to make it easier to understand,
  • For each piece (King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook and Pawn), 100 targeted problems,
  • Progressive exercises to advance on solid bases, perfect for beginners.

What's next?

Once you have solved these 600 chess puzzles, you will have a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each piece. You will know how to exploit them. It will then be time to tackle the tactics.