Editorial Reviews:
Newly designed with large easy-to-use diagrams, and a smaller friendlier format! In just 10 easy lessons, beginning and novice players learn everything they need to know to play and win at chess. From setting up a chessboard and moving the pieces, to basic concepts and winning strategies, and even how to get rated and play on the Internet, this is a great book for players looking to learn and improve their game. The book is jam-packed with numerous examples, hundreds of easy-to-read diagrams, and clear explanations, to make learning both easy and fun. Chapters cover basic openings, strategy, tactics, computer chess, middlegame play, endgame play, the best games of chess ever played, the history of chess, and lessons from the greatest players who ever lived. Great for beginners!

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Take large diagrams, straightforward instruction and helpful tips and quizzes—and what do you have? The winning formula for a quick and easy way to play chess today. Perfect for players new to the game, the author explains the basics of chess and each piece’s characteristics—how they move, their relative value and how they can be used to checkmate opponents. Players also learn the basic concepts of attacking and defending, and the mates and attacks that should be in every beginner’s arsenal. In just one reading, readers will learn the possibilities that they previously didn’t know existed to open up the exciting world of chess!

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Take large diagrams, straightforward instruction and helpful tips and quizzes—and what do you have? The winning formula for a quick and easy way for novice players to improve their chess game today. Play Better Chess Today is perfect for players who have learned the basics and are ready to take their game to the next level and start winning games. This skill-building manual has over 100 oversized diagrams that show how to exploit the strengths of each piece, and defend against its weaknesses. There are winning strategies for closed games (marked by tight pawn structures), open games (marked by free-flowing piece movement), opening strategies, endgame plays, and tactical moves that capture winning pieces and lead to checkmate.

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The Sicilian Dragon is one of the most exciting and popular openings in all chess—one that all chess players need to be familiar with—featuring games with brilliant combinations and exciting attacks. This new edition features bigger diagrams and discusses all of the important principles of the Dragon from the opening, including the latest moves and developments, to the endgame maneuvers. Readers learn all the key strategic and tactical ideas, but unlike most modern chess books, massive amounts of theory are eschewed in favor of presenting the critical opening ideas so that readers understand how to play the popular opening lines with skill, gusto and winning results.

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In one of the most influential chess books written, readers will learn the most important strategy, tactics and themes that comprise a successful chess game: space, time, force and pawn structure. In a book that has been called the "bible for novice to intermediate players," Evans uses actual game examples to illustrate dozens of chess themes. Each is a mini-lesson that illustrates the fundamental concepts of modern chess theory, ones that can be learned in easy, quick sittings. Evans discusses space (mobility, the center, controlling unoccupied squares, stability.), time (development, gambits, pins, tactics), force (relative values, sacrifices), and pawn structure (passed, connected, isolated and backward pawns), showing players how to weave these concepts together for a stronger and winning chess game. Features 200 diagrams and, for the first time, chess notation in modern algebraic notation making the book accessible to a new generation of chess players who couldn’t read the antiquated notation of the original.