Chess For Dummies by James Eade (PDF)

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Proven tactical tips to strengthen your game Your quick and easy guide to the rules, strategies, and etiquette of chess Kings, queens, knights – does chess seem like a royal pain to grasp? This friendly guide helps you make the right moves. From using the correct terms to engaging in the art of attack, you’ll get step-by-step explanations that demystify the game. You’ll also find updated information on tournaments and top players, as well as computer chess games and playing chess online! Discover how to: Set up your chessboardUnderstand the pieces and their powersRecognize the game’s patternsDecipher chess notationEmploy tactics to gain an advantageFind tournaments and clubs

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Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover Proven tactical tips to strengthen your game Your quick and easy guide to the rules, strategies, and etiquette of chessKings, queens, knights — does chess seem like a royal pain to grasp? This friendly guide helps you make the right moves. From using the correct terms to engaging in the art of attack, you’ll get step-by-step explanations that demystify the game. You’ll also find updated information on tournaments and top players, as well as computer chess games and playing chess online!Discover how toSet up your chessboardUnderstand the pieces and their powersRecognize the game’s patternsDecipher chess notationEmploy tactics to gain an advantageFind tournaments and clubs About the Author James Eade, a United States Chess Federation Chess Master since 1981, devotes his time to chess writing, organizing, and teaching.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I haven’t played in years/decades and wanted to figure this game out. This book is written in an easy style, good pictorial examples of what they are teaching and well organized. Every chapter I read improved my skill level against the computer to the point where I enjoy the game a little more and can actually win one out of five. I’m only one quarter through, but I do enjoy this book.

⭐Initially I wouldn’t buy this book because there were so many negative reviews on it. I bought some other books that just did not provide the information I need as someone relearning chess that was never that great a player anyway. Finally in desperation I bought the Kindle version. I found the book is quite excellent for someone like me who is trying to take a basic beginner knowledge of chess and improve it.However, though I love my Kindle I’ve found chess books don’t work so well on it. I do like Chess for Dummies so well I went ahead and bought the book too. Specifically what is great about this book is you don’t need to set up a chess board to follow the moves, there are many diagrams that use additional clear graphics to bring up specific points. If your new to chess this is a great book to start with.

⭐I read through this book after having read the numerous negative reviews on this page. I’m a c.1400 player looking for something on chess that would help my nieces and nephews. I thought the book was excellent: clear, easy to understand, well-written, and interesting.NEGATIVES: only real negative was two chess diagrams that contained errors. Some reviewers had difficulties with the organization, but I thought it was a quite well-organized intro.POSITIVES: #1. The many diagrams make it possible for even beginners to understand about 90% of the book without pulling out a chess set. One should use a chess set, of course, but I think few readers will, and they will scarcely ever need to: virtually every sequence of moves is illustrated by a diagram for each move. The diagrams are often enhanced with Xs showing threatened checks or captures that beginners might not easily see. This extensive use of diagrams helps make even very difficult points easy for beginners.#2. The book is very comprehensive, and yet concise. The author is skilled at covering a lot of ground in a very short space, and yet making it all look natural and easy: for example, it’s not every beginner’s book that covers the Lucena position in rook endings, and makes it look easy. Fred Reinfeld was one of the best at writing chess books for beginners, but Eades (at least in this book) is every bit as good; and in many ways better.#3. The book has a vivid, yet conversational writing style that keeps the reader interested in the text. Introductions can be a dreadfully dreary thing to either write or read, but this book does a very good job at holding the reader’s attention.I give it five stars in part to counterbalance some negative reviews elsewhere here that I regard as excessive. But I think the content is well worth five stars: the only thing I would dock a star for is the poor proofreading on two diagrams (embarrassing in a second edition!). The editors should show higher standards of professionalism for their third edition, but this is not enough to reduce it to a four star book.

⭐Give good instructions with clear examples

⭐The writing is not as direct as I would like, but if you are patient there is some excellent information about both the basics and more advanced skills and strategies. Kind of two books in one!

⭐The Dummies books explain everything in a really simplistic way. If you want to learn how to play chess effectively, read this.

⭐Super book! Great stories, good lay out of strategies, too! I’ll be looking for this author in other books!

⭐”Chess for Dummies” provides a very good introduction to the game of chess. If you’ve never played chess, or haven’t played since childhood, you will get a quick refresher in the first few chapters of the book. Subsequent chapters provide a good foundation in strategy and tactics. There is also a smattering of chess lore and history throughout the book. For myself, this is about all I need to be able to enjoy an occasional game with friends.

⭐I’m pretty grownup, and getting back into chess so as not to get beaten by the kids.I think I need the next book along from this, as it spends what seems like hours going through basic piece moves. From the Openings section it’s a bit better. It’s v-e-r-y simplistic in tone though, with a nice line in incomprehensible American sports analogies. I do feel like I’m being treated like a, well, a dummy. I suppose I was warned.A further complaint. I use the Kindle app on the iPhone, and on this device the graphics aren’t visible at all. See Figure 7 : WHERE?? On an actual Kindle the graphics are there, but the formatting is still clunky, like they’ve spent only 20 minutes on the editor. It doesn’t flow as it should. This is hard to describe, but with Dummies books using so many asides and extra text boxes, the effect is jarring.

⭐I bought this for my father who reads it religiously every day and unfortunately for me it’s turned him in to a Chess Master and what I mean by that is he now wins our low-level games with ease..:)Note to self, stop being helpful and nice as no body remembers the runner-up:(

⭐Yet again the Dummies Guide comes up with the goods. I dont think I have ever had a book by these people that has been poor. They obvously are very tough on who they select to design and write there publications.Well Dummies!

⭐A good introduction to the subject of Chess in the ‘……………. for Dummies.’ series of Publications. It provides a valuable introduction and enables one to move on, with more complex Books and Puzzles thus developing {Hopefully} the skills required to play a decent game.

⭐Just what I needed to improve my chess playing!

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