Download or read book 101 Chess Opening Traps written by Steve Giddins and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thing more humiliating than losing a game quickly is to lose a game quickly to a known opening trap. On the other hand, the easy point scored by the trapper is a great confidence booster, and allows the winner a good rest before the next game in a competition. This book shows that no-one should feel safe from an opponent armed to the teeth with cunning traps. Steve Giddins (who lived in Russia for a time) has collected his material from a wide variety of sources, some not normally available in the West.
Download or read book More Chess Openings written by Bruce Pandolfini and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-12-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandolfini, who will be the commentator for the 1993 World Chess Championships in Los Angeles this fall, illustrates 200 new and effective moves for the challenging first phase of the game, explaining strategies and principles in a clear and understandable way. 200 line drawings.
Download or read book Chess Openings Traps and Zaps written by Bruce Pandolfini and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit 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 successfully, partly because until now most opening instruction has consisted of tables of tournament level moves that offer no explanations for the reasons behind them. Consequently, these classical opening patterns can serve as little more than references to the average player. In Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps, Bruce Pandolfini uses his unique "crime and punishment" approach to provide all the previously missing explanation, instruction, practical analyses, and much, much more. The book consists of 202 short "openers" typical of average players, arranged according to the classical opening variations and by level of difficulty. Each example includes: -the name of the overriding tactic -the name of the opening -a scenario that sets up the tactic to be learned -an interpretation that explains why the loser went wrong, how he could have avoided the trap, and what he should have done instead -a review of important principles and useful guidelines to reinforce each lesson Also included are a glossary of openings that lists all the classical "textbook" variations for comparison and reference and a tactical index. Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps is a powerful, pragmatic entry into a heretofore remote area of chess theory that will have a profound influence on every player's game.
Download or read book Chess Opening Traps for Kids written by Graham Burgess and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess becomes fun when we learn how to survive the opening and stop falling into our opponents' cheap tactical tricks. And that's what this book is about! By understanding opening play and how to exploit tactical ideas, we turn the tables on our opponents. Now they will be the ones getting outmanoeuvred, tricked, trapped and pushed off the board! Chess Opening Traps for Kids is a serious course on how to play the opening, illustrated with memorable and entertaining examples. By focusing on 100 key themes, Graham Burgess explains how to use opening tricks to our advantage. Every opening features hidden dangers for both players, so we need to avoid pitfalls while making full use of tactics to achieve the opening goals of purposeful development and central control. Most of the 100 sections feature a basic example followed by a more complex one. Some of the traps have claimed grandmaster victims, while others are more likely to arise in junior chess. Either way, the aim is to learn the theme so well that you can use it when similar opportunities arise in your own games. A series of exercises at the end of the book allows you to check that you have grasped the main points. Throughout the book there are tips on how to spot tactics in advance and advice on opening strategy. Award-winning author Graham Burgess has written 25 chess books, ranging from general guides to works on specific openings. He is a FIDE Master and a former champion of the Danish region of Funen. In 1994 he set a world record for marathon blitz chess playing and in 1997 won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award. Nowadays he lives in Minnesota.
Download or read book Chess Traps written by I. A. Horowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1954 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Chess Traps is I.A. Horowitz's exploration of chess' pitfalls and swindes—both how to set them and how to avoid them. This is a rich storehouse of Chess 'crimes.' Sometimes the villain is thwarted: more often he gets away with his nefarious deeds. But, in either event, the tales, and their telling, will prove to be instructive and vastly entertaining.
Download or read book 700 Opening Traps written by Bill Wall and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 700 Opening Traps is a unique collection of chess moves which set up the opponent to fall into a mating traps. All the games have been derived from practical play, from amateur to Grandmaster level. Opening traps are useful in blitz play, Internet play, and usually with players who do not study opening theory. And at one time or another, all players, from Grandmaster to novice, have fallen for a chess trap or sprung one on some unsuspecting opponent. This books contains basic chess instructions for the novice as well as hundreds of chess positions that will help even the most experience chess players master the art of the chess trap. Another great publication from notable chess Master and author Bill Wall!
Download or read book New Traps in the Chess Opening written by Israel Albert Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winning Chess Traps written by Robert M. Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers sixty-four additional opening traps that everyone can use.
Download or read book The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps written by Gary Lane and published by Gloucester Publishers Plc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no easier way to win a game of chess than by luring your opponent into a devious trap. Similarly, there's nothing worse than being the one on the receiving end. Tricks, traps and swindles lie in wait everywhere, especially so in the opening phase of the game, and many battles can be won or saved simply through learning and mastering the most important ones.In this instructive and fun book, Gary Lane looks back though chess history and at modern times to create a list of his own favourite tricks and traps. Selecting from hundreds of contenders, Lane examines a variety of factors in order to decide which ideas are most worthy of inclusion. Discover the stories behind the most cunning tricks and traps of all time; how you can utilize them to score easy wins; and how you can avoid being tricked yourself. *An entertaining guide to the best ever tricks and traps*Invaluable advice from a seasoned tournament player*Ideal for players of all levels Gary Lane is an International Master and an experienced and successful player on the international tournament circuit. He qualified to compete at the World Cup in 2005 and is a former Commonwealth Champion. A prolific and popular chess writer, he is also a respected chess coach who has been involved in training some of England and Australia's top junior players.
Download or read book Savage Chess Openings Traps written by Bruce Alberston and published by Cardoza. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great for beginning and intermediate players who love challenges and are ready to learn the fundamental and tricky chess opening traps—how to pull them off or how to avoid them! Great for beginners ready to improve their game and intermediate players who love challenges, readers learn the most fundamental and tricky chess opening traps—and how to pull them off or to avoid them! This book combines the correct way to play mistake-free openings with the fundamental tactical tricks that belong in the arsenal of every chess player. Packed tight with 649 diagrams and 217 opening traps, this book is a perfect and painless way for beginning and intermediate players to learn the everyday mistakes made by amateurs and how to punish those that haven’t learned these lessons. Readers learn the traps for more than 40 opening systems!
Download or read book Chess Opening Traps Tricks Quick Kills written by John Watson and published by Cardoza. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chess player’s guide to opening traps, tricks and quick kills. This is the chess player’s venom to defend against popular traps, pitfalls, and quick kills faced by beginning and intermediate chess players right out of the opening—and how to use these clever traps against unwary opponents as well! Opening traps are the single most crippling stratagem used by tough opponents, that is, for unprepared players. This book, completely redesigned and formerly titled Survive & Beat Annoying Chess Openings, shows players how to handle these traps as both Black and White to defend and to attack the annoying variations opponents will often choose instead of the well-known main lines. For key openings, the authors provide two separate remedies to appeal to both the attacking and positional player. Unique charts and graphics make learning these remedies easy and fun!
Download or read book Winning Chess Traps for Juniors written by Robert Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Winning Chess Traps for Juniors," nationally-renowned chess coach Robert M. Snyder takes his Chess for Juniors book a step further by covering sixty-four additional opening traps. .Traps are arranged by opening to help students improve their knowl-edge of the most important openings. .Traps contain important tactical themes designed to improve pattern recognition. .Students are challenged at various points to find the best move. .Written for the beginner to intermediate player-this book is clear and easy to read, though not just for juniors!
Download or read book New Traps in the Chess Opening written by Horowitz I Staff and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 51 Chess Openings for Beginners written by Bruce Alberston and published by Cardoza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess openings are the most important part of every novices journey and the most fun. The most common and important openings are presented in an easy-to-use format with large, frequent diagrams showing every position along with clear explanations of the goals, objectives, and concepts behind the moves. No other book so perfectly presents the openings in a manner so easy to learn and use. 176 pages.
Download or read book The Queen s Gambit written by Walter Tevis and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Netflix’s most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction. When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits . . . Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen’s Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. “The Queen’s Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it.” —Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The English Patient
Download or read book Best Lessons of a Chess Coach written by Sunil Weeramantry and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of a game of chess, questions continually arise that test a player's reasoning skills. Questions such as: - "Who has the better position?"- "Should I resolve the tension in the center?"- "How can I improve the placement of my pieces?"In this long-awaited extension of the classic Best Lessons of a Chess Coach, the reader is invited to take a seat in the classroom of a renowned chess teacher, and learn how to answer such questions while experiencing the beauty, logic, and artistry of great chess games. When Sunil Weeramantry lectures on the games of top grandmasters, one can imagine making decisions alongside them. When he lectures on his own games, one can also experience the personal excitement, disappointment, and satisfaction of a well-contested game of chess. The cumulative effect of studying these lessons is to give the aspiring player a wide range of tools with which to win.
Download or read book Openings for Amateurs written by Pete Tamburro and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning how to start a game of chess is one of the most daunting tasks facing intermediate adult and young chess players. Award-winning chess teacher and championship scholastic coach Pete Tamburro offers practical guidance for avoiding common pitfalls at the chessboard, as well as effective strategies for meeting troublesome openings and a choice of openings reflecting his focus on ideas over memorization.