This comprehensive, up-to-date, all-purpose guide to chess is guaranteed to improve the game of the novice and to enable players of even limited experience to advance to good club level or better. Not only does this invaluable volume illuminate the elegance and mysteries of the classic chess game, it has also been revised to bring readers up to the minute about the myriad possibilities of chess on the Internet. Among the outstanding features of this user-friendly mammoth book are a complete guide to the main chess openings, hundreds of test positions for players of all standards, courses in tactics and attacking strategy, practical advice for further study, and an exceptionally helpful glossary as well as information about international chess events. In addition to providing a history of some of the greatest games ever played, it forecasts the exciting future for chess around the world and on the Internet.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good value. Decent book. Reprinted as "Chess" in hardcover.,
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This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Chess with Internet Games: New Edition Featuring Internet and Computer Games (Mammoth Books) (Paperback)
The 1st edition has been reprinted in hardcover and is now called "Chess" by Graham Burgess. As chess instruction books go, this is average at best, but it is a good value for the money. However, it is not so good for beginners.The best thing about the book are the descriptions of plans for various openings, and typical traps. So this is a very good book for trying new openings. The 2nd edition has more current info on computers, but that section is really unnecessary anyway. The rest of the book has decent material, enough to last you quite awhile, but nothing that will give you any epiphanies. By the way, the companion (still out-of-print as of October 2003) games collection, Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games, is a truly excellent book for intermediate players.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great value for money,
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This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Chess with Internet Games: New Edition Featuring Internet and Computer Games (Mammoth Books) (Paperback)
I bought this book three reasons1) ***most important*** It covers most of the openings and almost if not all have actual strategic game annotated example for that opening. It also lists traps in most of the openings. 2) All the other topics are well written too. 2) The book is worth the money overall. This one book covers it all
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Big fat general purpose book,
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This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Chess with Internet Games: New Edition Featuring Internet and Computer Games (Mammoth Books) (Paperback)
This is truly a chess book that all levels can enjoy. It teaches the basics. It has chess lore, some mate in two puzzles, some devilishly hard combination puzzles.It also has information about chess on the Internet (updated since the last edition of this book), and information about chess openings, endings, and middlegames (the latter dispersed among several chapters). It even has a chapter on chess puzzles, which is an art form by itself. The information on how to use chess databases and how to use chess programs is surprisingly helpful; I have never seen it in print before.
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Strategic Example, King's Indian, King's Gambit, Semi-open Games, Deep Blue, World Wide Web, John Nunn, Queen's Gambit, Four Knights, Garry Kasparov, Chris Hansen, Exchange Variation, Giuoco Piano, Alekhine Defence, Yasser Seirawan, Bobby Fischer, Ruy Lopez, Closed Sicilian, Closed Spanish, Evans Gambit, Paul Keres, Sicilian Defence, Steve Davis, British Championship, Chigorin Defence New!
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The king is not a very fast moving piece. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Strategic Example, King's Indian, King's Gambit, Semi-open Games, Deep Blue, World Wide Web, John Nunn, Queen's Gambit, Four Knights, Garry Kasparov, Chris Hansen, Exchange Variation, Giuoco Piano, Alekhine Defence, Yasser Seirawan, Bobby Fischer, Ruy Lopez, Closed Sicilian, Closed Spanish, Evans Gambit, Paul Keres, Sicilian Defence, Steve Davis, British Championship, Chigorin Defence New!
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- The Oxford Companion to Chess by David Hooper in Back Matter
- Play Winning Chess: Reissue by Yasser Seirawan on page 349
- My Chess Career by Jose R. Capablanca on page 346
- Essential Chess Endings: The Tournament Player's Guide by James Howell on page 392
- Secrets of Practical Chess (Gambit Chess) by John Nunn in Back Matter
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- Chess: A Psychiatrist Matches Wits with Fritz by Ernest F. Pecci in Front Matter, and page 312
- Chess Software User's Guide: Making the Most of Your Software by Byron Jacobs in Front Matter
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