Fireside Chess Library

Now even beginners can reap the rewards of Pandolfini's acclaimed teaching system. Over 300 problems, tailored to beginning players, encompass everything a player needs to learn, from the basic rules and vocabulary to the moves of various chessmen to sophisticated strategies. 300 line drawings.

In this book, I. A. Horowitz, Chess Editor of the New York Times and former U.S. Open Champion, applies some of the ideas and convictions acquired from thirty-five years of playing, teaching and analyzing the royal game. He emphasizes the tactical aspects of the game: how to recognize the big chance and hit hard when it occurs. He also stresses the ideas and methods in opening play, rather than...

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In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase. Of the three traditional phases of chess play the opening, the middle-game and the endgame the opening is the phase average players confront most often. Unfortunately, though, many openings are not completed successf...

Ready. Aim. Fire! No matter where your opponent lands his piece on the board, Chess Target Practice will teach you how to successfully attack his position. By analyzing each and every square, Bruce Pandolfini helps players learn the appropriate tactics to zero in on the target and move in for the kill. Because different positions necessitate different attack plans, this one-of-a-kind strategy ...

This book shows you how to gain the initiative in the very first moves, and how to proceed to victory from then on. For the players left to memorize winning openings without knowing the principles behind them, this book explains the strategies in logical, easty-to-read terms.

In the first comprehensive book about the highly publicized chess match between world champion Garry Kasparov and the IBM chess program Deep Blue, renowned chess teacher and author Bruce Pandolfini offers a play-by-play of each game--as well as his own unique analysis and historical perspective. 80 diagrams.

Since 1886 the world chess champion has been determined approximately every three and a half years in dramatic head-to-head- competitions. From Steinetz to Karpov, the twelve men who have held the title have shared on un-paralleled desire into that most definitive and triumphant of moves - checkmate! Now you can try to match wits with the camps in suspenseful, one-move problems that capture an...

The endgame has always been a particularly instructive phase of chess play. It provides the perfect opportunity for understanding the potential power of each chess piece in every chess situation-from opening move to checkmate. Yet unfortunately, the endgame is often viewed as an inaccessible area of play by average players whose experience is usually limited to watching championship games. Now ...

From America's foremost chess teacher and author comes a new standard: a comprehensive course covering all aspects of the game, to improve your technique whether you are a newcomer or a longtime fan. One of America's best-known chess masters, Bruce Pandolfini has helped millions learn the intricacies of chess through his acclaimed books and workshops. In this exciting volume, he presents a com...

Are you one of the many, a chess player who loves the game and the basic moves, but balks at memorizing the endless strategies yuou always thought you needed to know to improve your level of play? If so, you'll be glad to know that now there is a simpler, superior method that is also the most up-to-date and complete. In Principles of the New Chess, U.S. National Master Brice Pandolfini demostra...

In "Principles of New Chess", Bruce Pandolfini showed you how to master basic concepts in chess strategy. Now, in "Russian Chess", Pandolfini applies a complete course in intermediate chess logic, based on six games actually played by the "Kasparov generation" of Soviet chess players-perhaps the best-trained crop of young players ever to come out of the country that has held the world title for...

From ever-popular instructor Bruce Pandolfini comes this entertaining, interactive, and effective book for teaching young chess players and other newcomers to the game. Filled with hundreds of questions and answers, fill-in-the-blanks, and true-or-false posers, Square One combines traditional chess drills with diverting games and problems to stimulate the analytical skills of beginners of all a...

This special edition, edited by the author, has been organized into ten sections, each of which examines a different element of chess play in articles of interest to novices, intermediate players, and instructors.

For more than half a century, The Chess Review and Chess Life magazines have delighted and instructed players of all levels with premium-quality chess writing. Every month priceless coverage of history-making chess tournaments, the cream of instructional writing, incisive interviews with world champions, contributions from prestigious fans from Albert Einstein to Carmen Miranda, and chess tales...

In The Complete Chessplayer, you will find everything you need to play-and-enjoy a good game of chess: The Elements Simple Winning Methods Tactics Basic Elements Winning Ideas in Endgame Play Strategy in the Middlegame The Principles of Good Opening Play Double King Pawn Openings Single King Pawn Openings Double Queen Pawn Openings Single Queen Pawn Openings Eccentric Openings Illustrative Gam...

This rule book is the essential guide to the professional, scholastic, and Internet rules of chess. Written in plain English for practical use, you'll learn everything you need to know about tournaments, rating systems, etiquette for in-person and online play, and chess notation. Special sections for students and parents answer all the frequently asked questions about competitive play. These ar...

With Weapons of Chess, National Master and highly acclaimed teacher Bruce Pandolfini brings us the most accessible and easy-to-use chess strategy book ever. Written for beginning and intermediate players, Weapons of Chess is the first encyclopedia of chess strategies that doesn't rely on the usual baffling chess notation. There are no symbolic chess moves, no charts or sequences in chess notat...