Chess: Tactics and Strategy

by Graham Burgess

Comprehensive and easy to follow, this invaluable guide to this age-old game will enable even players with very little experience to progress.

Genres: Chess, Reference, Nonfiction

544 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Graham K. Burgess (1968) is an English FIDE Master of chess and a noted writer and trainer. He became a FIDE Master at the age of twenty. He attended Birkdale High School in Southport, Merseyside. In 1989 he graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in mathematics. In 1994 he set a world record by playing 510 games of blitz chess (five minutes for each player) in three days, winning 431 games and drawing 25,

Burgess has written more than twenty books and edited more than 250. His book The Mammoth Book of Chess won the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award in 1997. He is the editorial director of Gambit Publications.

Reviews

[Hayden Hudecek · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great book for tactics and strategies, with a few chess puzzles and example games, It was a great how to play chess, and for very advanced players. I learned a few new chess terms as well! I rate this book a 4/5 stars because at some points in the book, it got a bit repetitive and a few times there was an example game that read out 40-70 moves ahead. Overall a great chess book.

[Au Yong Chee Tuck · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are many chess books out there ranging from those written for beginners to advanced tomes written by professional players.

It is difficult for another chess book to stand out from the crowd.

This book by Graham Burgess succeeds due to several reasons. The author has provided clear explanations on how to play the game. He has lavishly illustrated his explanations with diagrams of the various positions in the chess games that he selected with care. As a bonus, he also included a section on chess puzzles, taken mostly from real games and classified from easy to difficult, to tease the would be chess player.

A superb all round chess book. Both the novice and the seasoned chess player should find this book useful.

[Phil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well presented. The many graphs help a novice player practice and get the feel of the game. The most useful of the three or four chess books that I've consulted and the only one that I kept.