Winning Chess Tactics & Strategies

by Ted Nottingham, Al Lawrence, Bob Wade

Kids love to win--and any kid who has begun (or wants to begin) learning and loving this timeless game will cherish this clever follow-up to Winning Chess Piece by Piece . These brilliant tactics and techniques will hone and develop young players' skills and give their brains a real workout...while they're having a great time. They'll learn all the chess master's tricks of the how to calculate moves far in advance, with the help of examples from winning games; strategies used by world champions--including Gary Kasparov's "discovered check" and "skewer"; Improving the Pieces to get in the best position to strike; and end game techniques. Along the way, quizzes help players chart their progress. Plus : you get a "certificate" for successfully completing the "course"!

Genres: Nonfiction, Chess

128 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 1999

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 2 out of 5]

This really ends up showing its age. Far too much history and backstories for someone looking to play better chess, incredibly simple, stuff you can learn in any chess book. Nothing to really make it stand out as chess popularity has exploded.

I can learn most of this on chess.com for free, and it is a far better learning tool that trying to discern these pictures of the board.

GothamChess's How to Win at Chess is better.

Even Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess is a better tool to practice and study positions.

And books like Story Time Chess will teach how the pieces move. This is a step above that . . . but not much.

This book was worth a skim, and I guess someone brand new to the game might be interested.