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Play Chess in 10 Minutes

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Play Chess in 10 Minutes by Brian Byfield and Gray Jolliffe is a whimsical and entertaining guide to grasping the basics of chess quickly and easily. With engaging illustrations and humour, the authors break down complex strategies into manageable steps, aiming to make the classic game enjoyable and accessible to everyone. This book is more about enhancing your chess skills than being a cookbook, with its clever approach appealing to beginners and casual players alike.
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Play Chess in 10 Minutes

A gift book explaining the basic rules of chess, enabling you to go off and play your first game of chess.

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

Always wanted to play chess but haven't much time to learn? This dinky little book will show you how – in just 10 minutes.

Covers all the pieces and how they move, plus simple tips and tricks.

Informative chessboard diagrams and quirky illustrations help the information stick.

Most people think chess is a difficult game to learn. But that really isn't the case. By the time you've read this helpful little book, you'll have absorbed all the information you need to know to go off and play your first game.

In clear, simple, humorous text, backed up with useful chessboard diagrams and illustrations, the author shows you round the board, introduces the pieces and how they move, and lets you into the secrets of special moves such as castling.

It finishes off with some invaluable advice on how to marshal your troops and win the game: why you need to avoid the sides of the boards, and how to see every threat as an opportunity, and every opportunity as a potential minefield.

Armed with the information in Play Chess in 10 Minutes, you'll become a real chess player – in super-quick time!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781849940153

Publisher: Batsford

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 September 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Batsford

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 125.0mm

Height: 160.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 64

About the Author

Brian Byfield has held a passion for chess and bridge throughout his career in advertising, film and TV. He lives in London. Gray Jolliffe is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator whose best-known work is the Wicked Willie series, first published in the 1980s. He lives in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

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