With clear diagrams and illustrations, this guide offers all the help you should need to learn and develop an understanding of good chess. It begins with the basics, the moves of the pieces, elementary tactics and basic combinations to force checkmate. It then explains how to fight for control, how to exploit strengths and weaknesses and how to develop a strategic plan. It also includes useful commentaries on historic games and exercises for the reader.
- ISBN10 0340670398
- ISBN13 9780340670392
- Publish Date 2 December 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 January 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Imprint Teach Yourself
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 240
- Language English