This introduction to chess strategy is aimed primarily at novice players. By isolating the basic elements and illustrating them through a selection of Master and Grand Master games, Simple Chess breaks down the mystique of strategy into plain, easy-to-understand ideas. More than a lesson in ch... read more
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This introduction to chess strategy is aimed primarily at novice players. By isolating the basic elements and illustrating them through a selection of Master and Grand Master games, Simple Chess breaks down the mystique of strategy into plain, easy-to-understand ideas. More than a lesson in chess fundamentals, this volume illustrates an increasingly prevalent and successful style of play. Newly converted into the current algebraic chess notation, it will prove a strategic weapon for a wide audience of players.
New algebraic edition of the work first published by Faber & Faber, London, 1978.
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