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Chess

5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
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Chess by László Polgár and Bruce Pandolfini is actually a detailed exploration of chess strategies rather than a book about cooking and food. It provides readers with game tactics, insightful tips, and educational puzzles to improve chess skills, demonstrating how to enhance strategic thinking through the game.
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Chess

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.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

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.

Organised 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781579125547

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 January 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 68.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 1166g

Pages: 1104

About the Author

Bruce Pandolfini is perhaps the most experienced chess teacher in North America. He is the author of eighteen instructional chess books, and was portrayed by Ben Kingsley in the film Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Laszlo Polgar is a Hungarian chess teacher whose writing and strategies are respected and known worldwide. He holds the title of master coach and coached his daughters, Susan, Judit, and Sophia, to several world championships and Olympic gold medals. They host the annual Global Chess Festival in Budapest.

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