The Chess Kid's Book of the King and Pawn Endgame [Paperback]

David MacEnulty (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 29, 2003 | Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Chess

Every player encounters the king and pawn endgame, the most common finish to a chess match. In The Chess Kid's Book of the King and Pawn Endgame, MacEnulty shows advanced beginner and intermediate players the most important positions and combinations of this tricky ending, including the ideas of key squares and outflanking. Targeting at 8-14-year-olds, this guide will challenge students to become better and more thoughtful chess players.

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Every player encounters the king and pawn endgame, the most common finish to a chess match. In The Chess Kid's Book of the King and Pawn Endgame, MacEnulty shows advanced beginner and intermediate players the most important positions and combinations of this tricky ending, including the ideas of key squares and outflanking. Targeting at 8-14-year-olds, this guide will challenge students to become better and more thoughtful chess players.

About the Author

David MacEnulty is the chess teacher at The Dalton School and the former director of program development at Chess-in-the-Schools in New York. His teams have won three National Champion titles and came in second four times. David and his chess teams have been featured nationally on CBS, CNN, in Chess Life magazine, and in many local television and print news stories.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games (July 29, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812935101
• ISBN-13: 978-0812935103
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,664,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hard To Understand, June 17, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Chess Kid's Book of the King and Pawn Endgame (Hardcover)

The way the book is written is very hard for me to understand. I may only be 8 but I should be able to understand this book. Not writen for a kid.

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars My kid is lost with this book, June 17, 2004

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John Harding (Atlanta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Chess Kid's Book of the King and Pawn Endgame (Paperback)

I purchased this book for my 9 year old who is in the 4th grade. He has played in a couple of chess tournaments through is school and gets As and Bs in school.
However, he expressed great disapointment when I purchased this book for him after he spend two days on it. Therefore, I look at it in detail and found my poor son had been reading a very poorly written book, that as an adult I found poorly organized and certainly a book with moderatly difficult concepts poorly explained.
Stay away from this!

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Just OK, July 9, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Chess Kid's Book of the King and Pawn Endgame (Paperback)

This book contains some good ideas for the beginner. My biggest problem is that the book does not seem to allways cover things in the proper order and jumps to too many ideas too quickly. This makes it hard for me to understand some things. This book was in my sixth grade class. I found Pandofini's Engame Book to be much better.