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Learn to play chess and outwit your friends. Chess advice for beginners.

Learning to play chess well is fun and exciting! It's a mental challenge for all ages that will exercise your mind and help you excel!

Did you know there are more books written on chess than any other sport? It's estimated that there are well over 100,000 books written on the game.

Today, you can choose from many ways to assist in your learning. PC's, DVD's, online chess, and electronic chess offer many choices beyond books. But nothing will be as effective as pure, simple reading of a chess book coupled with working out what you are learning on a REAL chess board.

Read these tips as you start exploring the chess learning tools available.

PRO Chess DVD video chess mentor gives both new players and players that have a basic understanding of the game, many ideas and strategies that they can use to improve. It's a personable, friendly, remastered DVD from the 80's that still holds significance today. Everyone that has watched it has found it to be valuable!

Chess for Anyone is an incredibly clear presentation of the basic rules of chess and beyond. This is another outstanding instruction option - especially for classroom presentation.

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TASC Chess Tutorial 2 (CD) Chess Rules & Learn to Play Chess Retail: $39.95 Price: $19.95 In Stock!	Chess School for Beginners (CD) Retail: $32.00 Price: $29.95 In Stock!	Chess Tactics for Beginners (CD) Retail: $32.00 Price: $29.95 In Stock!

Beginners will learn to play chess and learn the chess rules, tactics, strategies, and openings clearly with this top rated chess tutorial.	Great for all beginners, both children and adults!	More than 1,300 solving positions for beginners!


Chess for Anyone - 3 DVD Set Retail: $29.95 Price: $26.96 In Stock!	Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations & Games - Polgar Retail: $19.95 Price: $17.95 In Stock!	Starting Out in Chess - Byron Jacobs Retail: $14.95 Price: $13.46 In Stock!

There are many videos that present chess material at the expert and master level but very few that address the all-important beginning and intermediate phases of the game where most of the chess playing population lies.	Become a tactical menace! Learn countless interesting tactical combinations that you'll spot easier when they happen in your own games!	Start out on a fascinating journey of chess discovery with this fun, easy-to-follow book!


Winning Chess Endings, 4th Ed. - Seirawan Retail: $19.95 Price: $17.96 (Out of Stock)	Beginning Chess: 300 Elementary Problems - Pandolfini Retail: $15.00 Price: $13.50 In Stock!	Ideas Behind the Chess Openings - Fine Retail: $13.95 Price: $12.61 In Stock!

Approach every endgame with a winning strategy!	What makes this book different from others of its kind is its simplicity.	Not a list of moves, but a simple and logical explanation of opening systems.


Discovering Chess Openings - Emms Retail: $23.95 Price: $21.56 In Stock!

Few would disagree that the opening is one of the most daunting phases of the game for newcomers to chess.