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EBOOK - Starting Out - Chess Tactics and Checkmates

Once a chess player has figured out how all the chess pieces move, what is the next step on the chess ladder? This helpful and entertaining book provides players with the complete answer. In this easy-to-follow guide, renowned chess teacher Chris Ward explains all the crucial checkmating patterns, plus how to catch out opponents with an assortment of tricks and traps, commonly known as chess tactics.

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Publisher: Everyman
Author: Chris Ward
Year of Publication: 2006

Pages: 172
Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)


Book Description

 Once you have figured out how all the chess pieces move, what is the next step up the chess ladder? This helpful and entertaining book provides you with the complete answer. In this easy-to-follow guide, renowned chess teacher Chris Ward explains all the crucial checkmating patterns, plus how to catch out your opponents with an assortment of tricks and traps, commonly known as chess tactics. There is something for everyone in this book: improving players can benefit from learning the basic checkmates and the key tactics such as attacking and defending pieces, forks, pins and skewers, while more experienced players can discover the delights of advanced checkmates and sneaky tricks, ones that can flummox even the world's best players!

Learning chess tactics is fun and one of the quickest ways of improving your chess, and it's even more enjoyable when your opponents begin falling for your tricks! Read this book and, with the help of a Grandmaster, you will be ready to unleash your weapons in your chess battles, whoever your opponent may be.An ideal chess tactics and checkmates guide for the improving player Written by a distinguished chess author

Full of notes, tips and warnings to help the reader.
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Author/s Chris Ward
Publication Date January 1, 2006
Popular Series Starting Out
Hardware Requirements Windows
System Requirements ChessBase Reader Download
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