Bruce Pandolfini

Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From America's foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix's The Queen's Gambit comes a comprehensive guide 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 complete overview of the entire game and its culture. Structured as a dialogue between a beginning student and an expert teacher, Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess takes the student step-by-step from fundamentals to advanced, highly strategic play. Combining easy-to-follow diagrams with trenchant and up-to-date analysis, Pandolfini puts a new twist on accepted chess theory, offering a seamless beginning-to-end approach, including: • a short introductory history of the game • the moves, rules, and contemporary notation forms • the basic principles of chess • how to develop an opening repertoire • the art of tactical play • pattern recognition and memory aids • traps and pitfalls to be avoided • middlegame play, strategy, and planning • defense and counterattack • transitions to the endgame and the endgame itself • computers and the future of chess • the best websites for playing chess online With Pandolfini's expert insight into the history and modern world of chess, as well as several appendices to enhance play and appreciation, Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess makes the perfect gift for players of all ages and will be the benchmark title for chess players for years to come.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743260985
• Artikelnr.: 49157003

Autorenporträt

Bruce Pandolfini

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Prologue: Chess, The Universal Game
Lesson 1: In the Beginning
The Moves and Rules
Lesson 2: Arming for Attack
Non-mating Tactics
Lesson 3: Defining the Goal
Mating Patterns
Lesson 4: Terms of Engagement
The Elements
Lesson 5: Staking out Territory
Opening Principles and the First Move
Lesson 6: Establishing the Neutral Zone
Black's Response
Lesson 7: Determining Priorities
Development and the Center
Lesson 8: Starting the Campaign
Comparing Minor Pieces
Lesson 9: Digging the Trenches
Trades, Pins, and More on Minor Pieces
Lesson 10: Accumulating Advantages
Pawn Play and Weaknesses
Lesson 11: Forming Plans
Doubled Pawns, Castling, and Open Lines
Lesson 12: Evaluating and Calculating
The Middlegame, Exchange Values, How to Analyze
Lesson 13: Breaking Through
Strategy and Tactics, the Importance of Material, Avoiding Errors
Lesson 14: The Beginning of the End
Endgame Principles, Centralization, the Active King, and Pawn Promotion
Lesson 15: Approaching the Goal
The Passed Pawn and Pawn Majorities
Lesson 16: All Good Things Come to an End
The Seventh Rank, Invasion, and Simplification
Epilogue: Chess = mc2
Appendix 1: Glossary
Appendix 2: Opening Moves
Appendix 3: Chess on the Web
Appendix 4: World Champions
Appendix 5: Significant Dates in Chess History
Appendix 6: Quotes
Appendix 7: Chess in Movies and Books
Appendix 8: The Most Famous Chess Game of All Time
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments