Improve Your Chess in 7 Days

Improve Your Chess in 7 Days
Author: Gary Lane
Publisher: Batsford Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-07-17
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1849941319

No time to study but want to win more chess games? "Improve Your Chess in 7 Days" is packed with practical tips, hints on how to improve, learn from the champions and find out how to beat them - in just a week. With one short chapter for each day of the week, the book is ideal for social chess players and includes a sprinkling of chess cartoons to keep you smiling as you read. With comments and advice after each move, this is as clear a guide to improving your chess as you will ever need.

Improve Your Chess at Any Age

Improve Your Chess at Any Age
Author: Andres D. Hortilosa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-01-10
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781857446180

In this original and thought-provoking book, Andres D. Hortillosa explains his ever-evolving system of chess improvement. If you are serious about improving your chess this book is for you.

Back to Basics: Tactics

Back to Basics: Tactics
Author: Dan Heisman
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2011-02-02
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1936490145

Chess Tactics Can Be Fun! This book is an introduction to the various kinds of basic chess tactics. With instructional material, examples, and problems of all types, the subject of chess tactics is covered comprehensively. There are approximately 500 examples ranging from too easy to very difficult! Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about - and benefiting from - the recurring patterns of tactics. It is well established that the study of basic tactics is probably the single most important thing any beginner can do to improve at chess. This book will help you do that!

Improve Your Chess Tactics

Improve Your Chess Tactics
Author: Yakov Neishtadt
Publisher: New In Chess
Total Pages: 862
Release: 2024-04-17
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9083378837

The upgraded 2024 edition of a modern classic

7 Steps to Better Chess

7 Steps to Better Chess
Author: Eric Schiller
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2010
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 158042516X

This book is designed to immediately improve your game. Eric Schiller, a legendary teacher of bright young stars and champions, shows you in seven lessons that cover every aspect of the game how to rethink the moves you make and become a winning player. The book includes more than 55 key game situations, and is packed with diagrams and insightful callouts so that every page brings you one step closer to being a master! Chess is a game of mistakes; if you can cut down on them, your game will get much stronger. This unique approach shows the mistakes Schiller has made in his own games at each stage of chess development from early scholastic challenges to professional encounters with grandmasters to illustrate the types of errors typically made in real games. In each case, you'll learn how such errors could have been avoided. You'll also see how professional players fall prey to the same problems as amateurs! Featuring instructive lessons in the opening, basic tactics, basic strategy, middlegame, endgame and lesssons learned.

How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess

How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess
Author: Christian Kongsted
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Computer chess
ISBN: 9781904600022

Computers have permeated almost every facet of modern chess, yet few players know how to gain the maximum benefit from working with them. Computers function as playing partners, opening study tools, endgame 'oracles', tactics trainers, sources of information on opponents and searchable game databases. Kongsted provides practical advice on how to use computers in all these ways and more. He also takes a look at the history of the chess computer, and how its 'thinking' methods have developed since the early days. The book features an investigation of human vs. machine contests, including the recent Kasparov vs. Deep Junior and Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz matches, in which honours ended even.

Rapid Chess Improvement

Rapid Chess Improvement
Author: Michael De la Maza
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2002
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9781857442694

A book for all enthusiastic adult players. Michael de la Maza reveals the secrets of a unique study plan which he used to transform his level of play in just a twelve month period.

The Woodpecker Method 2

The Woodpecker Method 2
Author: Axel Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-11
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781784831233

Swedish chess Grandmaster Axel Smith returns with a sequel to his colossal bestseller, The Woodpecker Method, which was on the tactics of the World Champions. For The Woodpecker Method 2, he has found 1002 foundational positional exercises and prepared them for 'woodpecking' - solve the puzzles repeatedly, and boost your positional intuition. The quick explanation of the Woodpecker Method is that you need to solve a large number of puzzles in a row; then solve the same puzzles again and again, only faster. It's not a lazy shortcut to success - hard work is required. But the reward can be re-programming your unconscious mind.

MASTER CHESS FOR BEGINNERS

MASTER CHESS FOR BEGINNERS
Author: Jason Test
Publisher:
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2020-12-06
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9789918608089

"Nobody ever won a chess game by resigning." Have you loved "The Queen's Gambit" and you wish to improve your chess skills? Are you a beginner or casual player and want to take more seriously your ability in chess? Do you want to develop your problem-solving skills? You will discover the magic world of chess very soon! First, you have to know that the game of chess definitely stands out from each other game and has tons of admirers all over the world. It is actually an astonishing beneficial pastime, because playing chess results in better brain function, improved memory and cognitive abilities, strategic thinking and attention improvement. MASTER CHESS FOR BEGINNERS helped 195 beginners to become proficient in this game. One of them is Igor, a lawyer with the passion for chess, who over the last few years tried has approached to this fascinating passion. He has been trying to learn chess for years and lost hope with many tutorials that were boggling his mind. But thanks to "Master Chess for beginners" he learned how to sort mistakes out and eventually decided to share some cutting edge tips This book is a challenging tool to find real help with many unique contents ✓The most common mistakes for beginners and how to avoid them ✓Proper charts to simplify the explanation of concepts and moves ✓Easy learning of every movements of pieces in less than 3 hours ✓How to win and become a true chess champion: checkmate your opponent! ✓3 secret opening tricks that white can use to trap the black queen It's up to you to decide what to do, right now! Do you prefer to waste time with your "I'll do it" or would you eventually prefer to take action and enjoy the benefits of chess skills? Remember! Chess DEMANDS attention, in other words, if your mind is not focused on the game - you simply lose. With such an immediate punishment for lack of attention, the mind is trained to be focused and concentrated. This attitude of concentration results in better performance in schools and workplaces, less time wasted and more successes achieved. After reading these pages, the chess world is about to lose thousands of "punching bag" level chess players. In fact, every reader will be taking his or her game to the next level! If you hopefully aim to reach this expertise, click the BUY NOW button and start to strengthen your brain with CHESS!