THE BASIC A Beginner's Guide to Playing Good Chess This book is designed as a preliminary lesson for the novice chess player. It teaches the fundamental principles needed to play winning chess by analyzing, move-by-move, one of the most famous chess games in history, the Opera House game, featuring the legendary chess master Paul Morphy.
In this book, we will follow Paul Morphy`s famous Opera House game in order to illustrate how these central principles work and how they can applied to win games. Each move in this game will be analyzed and explained in a simple and concise way in order to help the reader gain an understanding of the ideas behind the moves as well as how they conform –or fail to conform– to the Basic Principles.
This book was written for beginners and novice players wanting to dramatically improve their games.