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Publication Date: September 2, 2005

Proven tactical tips to strengthen your game

Your quick and easy guide to the rules, strategies, and etiquette of chess

Kings, queens, knights - does chess seem like a royal pain to grasp? This friendly guide helps you make the right moves. From using the correct terms to engaging in the art of attack, you'll get step-by-step explanations that demystify the game. You'll also find updated information on tournaments and top players, as well as computer chess games and playing chess online!

Discover how to:

Set up your chessboard
Understand the pieces and their powers
Recognize the game's patterns
Decipher chess notation
Employ tactics to gain an advantage
Find tournaments and clubs

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } Proven tactical tips to strengthen your game

Your quick and easy guide to the rules, strategies, and etiquette of chess

Kings, queens, knights - does chess seem like a royal pain to grasp? This friendly guide helps you make the right moves. From using the correct terms to engaging in the art of attack, you'll get step-by-step explanations that demystify the game. You'll also find updated information on tournaments and top players, as well as computer chess games and playing chess online!

Discover how to:

Set up your chessboard
Understand the pieces and their powers
Recognize the game's patterns
Decipher chess notation
Employ tactics to gain an advantage
Find tournaments and clubs

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Editorial Reviews

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It was inevitable, thank goodness, that the Dummies series would give us an introductory chess book. The light touch is perfect to offset the sober aura of mystery that surrounds the game in many people's minds. And the extras that reach beyond the well-written move explanations, strategies, and pattern-recognition make the book a real winner. It won't take much playing for readers to appreciate the section on chess etiquette, for example, or the one on uncommon moves, subtitled, "The Ones That Start the Fights." Informative tips and amusing bits of trivia add to the fun. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Proven tactical tips to strengthen your game

Your quick and easy guide to the rules, strategies, and etiquette of chess

Kings, queens, knights — does chess seem like a royal pain to grasp? This friendly guide helps you make the right moves. From using the correct terms to engaging in the art of attack, you'll get step-by-step explanations that demystify the game. You'll also find updated information on tournaments and top players, as well as computer chess games and playing chess online!

Discover how to

Set up your chessboard
Understand the pieces and their powers
Recognize the game's patterns
Decipher chess notation
Employ tactics to gain an advantage
Find tournaments and clubs

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Product Details

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 2 edition (September 2, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764584049
ISBN-13: 978-0764584046
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #554,633 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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293 of 299 people found the following review helpful

Not Comprehensive April 6, 2005

By Chris James

Format:Paperback

This book looks like a nice thick book when you first see it. It has a lot of pages. What is so disapointing is that it does a terrible job of providing a logical progression of well thought out lessons to help the beginner build a solid knowledge of chess. It is confusing as it skips around, often covering things totally unrelated to what a beginner needs to know. I agree with the other reviewers that the "Idiot's Guide to Chess" is superior (and "Chess For Juniors" for kids is just great).

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The way this book is set up it does not teach in a good order. It has a lot of things that make no sense when you are given information suddenly that has noting to do with what was covered in the last segment and it is not instructional. Look at getting "Learn Chess" by Alexander as a much better book.

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72 of 74 people found the following review helpful

Good for the FIRST TIME Player: But Not the Best May 18, 2002

By IM J. Callahan

Format:Paperback

James Eade is a very solid chess player and a great teacher. I have played him three times in the US Open, and I have kibitzed with him a few times. Eade has a great knowledge of the game of chess, and that was why I was suprised that his beginners book on chess was far less than great.

This book, although acceptable for beginners, is inferior to the Complete Idiot's series on the game. Eade only touches extremely basic principles, and neglects important subjects such as tactics.

Do not buy this book if you have the option of buying Wolff's book- and definentely do not waste your money buying both of them.

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A great book by an author who loves the game

Having read several of the dummies books in the past, I have often been a little disappointed with them. Read more

Published 11 months ago by TheFivePillars

A Bit Baffled by All the Negative Reviews

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completely underrated

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Clear and Comprehensive

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Excellent.

I used to play quite a bit of chess years ago, but only recreationally. I found that only chess and tennis required the kind of concentration to play well that could take my mind... Read more

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This book will make you stupider

My wife bought this in hopes of sharing my own chess hobby. Instead, it probably kept her from ever wanting to touch a chess piece. Read more

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Great Intro to Chess

I picked up a copy after reading "The Birth of the Chess Queen," a fun look at the evolution of the queen piece. Read more

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This book is certainly not as good as the competition ("Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess" or "Chess for Everyone; A complete guide for the Beginner) in that the format is difficult... Read more

Published on January 8, 2010 by Pieter Custers

Great Refresher Course !

Chess for Dummies is really good for those who either have played the game in the past or who want to know the fundamentals, especially as a "refresher" course. Read more

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A little something for everyone

Chess for Dummies provide a little something for every chess player regardless of level of play. You can benefit if you are either a beginner or a seasoned player. Great product.

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If you're new to chess, don't despair. Read the first page

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chess resources, most famous chess games, white king advances, endgame patterns, pawn steps, chess etiquette, pawn formations, queening square, pawn duo, center pawn, pawn chain, backwards pawn, chess notation, passed pawn, passant capture, white pawn, minority attack, pawn structure, black pawn, key square, black rook, pawn promotion, white rook, black king, bishop sacrifice

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
French Defense, Queen's Gambit, Ruy Lopez, United States, Von Bardeleben, Closed English, Sicilian Defense, Aaron Nimzowitsch, Deep Blue, Double Stonewall, Petroff's Defense, Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Tal, Paul Morphy, Selecting Your Strategy, Alexander Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker, Gaining Chess Know-How, Game Time, Indian Defenses, King's Gambit, Putting Your Chess Foot Forward, The Ten Most Famous Chess Games, Chess Life, Hitting the Net

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The Oxford Companion to Chess, Second Edition by David Hooper in Back Matter
Pawn Power in Chess (Dover Chess) by Hans Kmoch on page 217
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