Describes the principles of the game, including rules, etiquette, opening moves, middle and end games, chess terminology, and strategies.

Product Description: Tactics Are Tops!My First Book of Chess Tactics is a thorough introduction to this vital aspect of playing winning chess.Tactics are the tricks and techniques you use to surprise and ambush your opponent. The more you know about tactics, the better you’ll play the game and the more games you will win...read more

Product Description: Master the ancient art of chess, the game of kings. Now, novice players can learn quickly and at a glance the key techniques and classic moves of the chess masters. This fully revised and updated edition includes basic and advanced tactics, combinations, sacrifices, pawn structures, and annotated illustrations to help players of every level hold their own against more advanced players...read more

Product Description: Go from tentative beginner to formidable player! This complete chess course contains everything novices need to know, from basic strategies to advanced tactics. References to world-class champions like Bobby Fischer and Mikhail Tal bring the concepts to life; "Quick Start" reference pages help you retain the information; and puzzle sections let you test your new skills as you go along...read more

Product Description: Chessplayers wishing to improve their performance typically seek to deepen their middlegame understanding or to increase their endgame knowledge. Often, however, the real key to improvement lies not in learning additional ideas and positions, but in developing a more effective thinking process at the board...read more

Product Description: Learn how to play chess the world s most popular board game! It s easy to learn, and anyone can play it. Jessica E Prescott teaches you how you can get good at it and start winning. Improve your skills through 35 fun activities this isn t just a textbook about the rules of the game! Why not have a game of Pawn Football (pawns line up at their starting rank and race to the other side), or do the Queen Dance (make a checkmate using only a queen and king)? Try Scholar s Mate the four-move checkmate every beginner needs to know and when you re really good, play Bughouse, a crazy four-person game with two chess sets...read more

Product Description: Everyone knows that the way to improve at chess is to solve tactics puzzles. But why do tactics books make amateurs study grandmaster or master games? How useful is it to analyze games that are unreal for everyday chess players?In the real world of beginning and casual players openings are dubious, positions are messy, material is uneven, and cheap traps and oversights are occurring constantly...read more

Product Description: Nearly all chess games are won by basic tactical methods. This book makes these methods memorable and clear. It's been said that "tactics are 99% of chess." This third volume of the Comprehensive Chess Course teaches you the basic tools of winning chess with instructive and memorable examples...read more

This classic story shows how a young woman can overcome adversity and find true happiness. It is a story of passionate love, travail, and final triumph. Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls by night. The relationship between the heroine and Mr. Rochester is only one episode, albeit the most important, in a detailed fictional autobiography in which the author transmuted her own experience into high art. In this work, the plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance but possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit, and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer, and the rigid social order that circumscribes her life and position.

Product Description: Want to improve at chess? Then you'll need to improve your understanding of chess strategy. You probably knew that already - but how to begin to study such a vast and seemingly complex subject? International Master Adam Hunt is a full-time chess teacher and is thus very familiar with this problem...read more

Product Description: This chess puzzle super-challenge contains 100 fun positions to solve, ranging from encouragingly easy to mind-numbingly hard. Using an innovative format, every puzzle is preceded by an instructive example, illustrating an important pattern...read more