Product Details

This book provides readers with all the essential information they need to learn chess and to start winning-quickly! The contents, tested and proven to work, leave little to chance. The reader learns the rules, how to apply them efficiently, the principles of winning chess, and how to visualize the board and pieces, all prerequisites for success.

Features

• The Rules of Play
• Attack and Defense, Trades
• How to Start a Game, Mating with a Queen and Rook in the Endgame
• Mistakes in the Opening
• Opening Traps
• The Concept of Planning
• Tactics, Double Attack, Pawn Endgames
• Pinning, Endgames with King and two pawns versus King
• The Skewer
• Typical Mating Combinations
• Typical Mating Combinations (continued)
• Tests

• 303 Pages
• Paperback
• Publisher: Chess Information & Research Institute
• Published: 1996
• Notation: Algebraic Notation

• "Thirty years ago, Roman Pelts was my chess teacher in Odessa, Russia. Later he assembled all knowledge essential for becoming a stronger player in this Comprehensive Chess Course. The techniques used in the Course proved to be a success for me as well as for generations of chessplayers in Russia and later in Canada and the United States. Now, the Course can help you learn chess the correct way to realize your chess potential fully." - From Grandmaster Lev Alburt, three-time U.S. Champion