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SCP, a Bunch of strategic Chess Patterns: Positional Patterns, Rules and Guidelines. To avoid learning them the hard way. (Chess manual) by [Rodolfo Pardi, Evelyne Nicod]

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SCP, a Bunch of strategic Chess Patterns: Positional Patterns, Rules and Guidelines. To avoid learning them the hard way. (Chess manual) Kindle Edition

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While my past books about Patterns covered visual situations where what to do is evident or at least well known and established, just a matter of learning by heart, this handbook comes in when one does not know what to do.

While the move is always demanded by the position, the many rather equivalent possibilities are not evaluated simply by a sequence of candidate moves, or by brute force in case of computers, but require reasoning with words. Which are generally addressed as rules or guidelines or what you want, being actually Strategy, strategic Patterns.

The content of this handbook is aimed to beginners who should follow religiously at least these two dozens of patterns, the titles are well known, I tried to explain why, and gave examples, the way deductive teaching is done. Links are provided for the games, which will aid the understanding without the need of a chessboard if you can connect to Internet, with Wifi or other.

Pawn structures are not considered due to the many good books available on this subject, and as their reading is suggested when one reaches expert level.

Knowledge of algebraic notation is required, which is easy, refer to Wikipedia in case of doubt. To help, figurines are used for the pieces instead of letters.

This time there is no previous Italian edition, therefore, besides the usual grammar error for which I apologise, the content, while checked for correctness, did not yet pass the control of many readers; so I encourage my readers to write me in case of doubts, discrepancies, missing links, uncompleteness and the like.

Rodolfo Pardi, librarian, instructor and arbiter of FSI (Italian Chess Federation)

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12 - 18 years
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108 pages
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English
Grade level

7 - 12
Publication date

March 27, 2015
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ASIN : B00VBTISMG
Publisher : Gatteria; 1st edition (March 27, 2015)
Publication date : March 27, 2015
Language : English
File size : 2958 KB
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D. Arnett

Good read

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2016

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Light and readable. Not the typical ponderous read that my rather slow mind is easily overwhelmed (or bored) with. Almost (considering that I'm not the as-remembered intense chess player of my youth) fun, certainly something that I can read while waiting for or riding on the bus (if I don't get motion sickness from the jostling movement.)

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Recommended

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2015

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Great book, dealing with strategies in chess.
While books on tactics and openings abound, the ones on chess strategies are somewhat lacking.
This is one of the best!
Well conceived and....can't beat the price!

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CheesLover

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2016

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Great material...easy to study...concrete...and good balance between moves and explanations

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