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LXCHAHTBYDAC
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How to beat your dad at chess
127 pages, hardback, Gambit, 1998
From the series »Chess for Kids«
This is a chess book for everyone, from eight to eighty, beginner to master. In a clear, easy-to-follow format it explains how the best way to beat a stronger opponent (be it a friend, clubmate - or Dad!) is by cleverly forcing checkmate. Delightful and instructive positions from real games are used to show the 50 Deadly Checkmates that chess masters use to win their games.
For the beginner, simply learning the checkmating ideas and enjoying the examples will help develop the tactical skills needed to carry out attacks, combinations and sacrifices.
For the advanced player, many of these checkmating ideas will come as a revelation, having never been categorized before. Experts agree that pattern-recognition is vital to success in chess, and this book provides a wealth of valuable patterns.
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess makes improving easy and fun, and is full of helpful explanations and practical advice on how to approach chess games with confidence - and success.
Grandmaster Murray Chandler finished second in the World Cadet Championship in 1976, ahead of Garry Kasparov, whom he defeated in their individual game. He remains to this day one of the few players in the world with a 100% score against Kasparov.
He was a key member of the England team that won the silver medals in Chess Olympiads three times during the 1980s, and went on to captain the team in 1994. He is proprietor and Editor-in-Chief of the British Chess Magazine and the author of several successful chess books.
For the beginner, simply learning the checkmating ideas and enjoying the examples will help develop the tactical skills needed to carry out attacks, combinations and sacrifices.
For the advanced player, many of these checkmating ideas will come as a revelation, having never been categorized before. Experts agree that pattern-recognition is vital to success in chess, and this book provides a wealth of valuable patterns.
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess makes improving easy and fun, and is full of helpful explanations and practical advice on how to approach chess games with confidence - and success.
Grandmaster Murray Chandler finished second in the World Cadet Championship in 1976, ahead of Garry Kasparov, whom he defeated in their individual game. He remains to this day one of the few players in the world with a 100% score against Kasparov.
He was a key member of the England team that won the silver medals in Chess Olympiads three times during the 1980s, and went on to captain the team in 1994. He is proprietor and Editor-in-Chief of the British Chess Magazine and the author of several successful chess books.
| Weight | 410 g |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Gambit |
| Medium | Book |
| Year of Publication | 1998 |
| Author | Murray Chandler |
| Series | Chess for Kids |
| Language | English |
| ISBN-10 | 1901983056 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781901983050 |
| Pages | 127 |
| Binding | hardback |
005 Introduction
006 Algebraic Notation
008 How Chess Masters Think
The 50 Deadly Checkmating Patterns
014 1) Anastasia's Mate
016 2) The Missing Defensive f-pawn
018 3) The Arabian Mate
20 4) Philidor's Legacy
22 5) Semi-Smothered Mate
24 6) Single Rook Sacrifice on h8
026 7) Double Rook Sacrifice on h8
028 8) Damiano's Mate
030 9) Taimanov's Knight Check
032 10) The See-Saw
034 11) The Petrosian Draw
036 12) The Rh8+ & Nxf7+ Trick
038 13) Blackburne's Mate
040 14) Boden's Mate
042 15) Other Queenside Mates
044 16) The Double Rook Sacrifice
046 17) The Double Bishop Sacrifice
048 18) Morphy's Mate
050 19) Pillsbury's Mate
052 20) The Crafty Bg8
054 21) The Rook Sacrifice on g7
056 22) A Knight on f5 (1)
058 23) A Knight on f5 (2)
060 24) Rook Decoy on h7
062 25) The Queen & Bishop Mate
064 26) Greco's Mate
066 27) More Qg6 Bombshells
068 28) Korchnoi's Manoeuvre
070 29) The Bxh6 Sacrifice
072 30) The Queen & Bishop Line-up
074 31) Removing the f6 Defender
076 32) The Greek Gift (1)
078 33) The Greek Gift (2)
080 34) The Greek Gift (3)
082 35) The Greek Gift (4)
084 36) Mate on the Long Diagonal
086 37) Weak Dark Squares
088 38) Blackburne's Other Mate
090 39) Lolli's Mates
092 40) Back-Rank Mates
094 41) The Refined Back-Rank Mate
096 42) More Bank-Rank Mates
098 43) Rook Deflections
100 44) Two Rooks on the Seventh
102 45) Anderssen's Mate
104 46) Pawn on the Seventh Rank
106 47) Legall's Mate
108 48) The Bishop Sacrifice on f7
110 49) Knight Sacrifices on f7 & e6
112 50) The Fischer Trap
114 Test Positions
121 Test Solutions
123 Glossary
125 And Finally... What to do if Dad is Garry Kasparov
127 For Further Improvement
006 Algebraic Notation
008 How Chess Masters Think
The 50 Deadly Checkmating Patterns
014 1) Anastasia's Mate
016 2) The Missing Defensive f-pawn
018 3) The Arabian Mate
20 4) Philidor's Legacy
22 5) Semi-Smothered Mate
24 6) Single Rook Sacrifice on h8
026 7) Double Rook Sacrifice on h8
028 8) Damiano's Mate
030 9) Taimanov's Knight Check
032 10) The See-Saw
034 11) The Petrosian Draw
036 12) The Rh8+ & Nxf7+ Trick
038 13) Blackburne's Mate
040 14) Boden's Mate
042 15) Other Queenside Mates
044 16) The Double Rook Sacrifice
046 17) The Double Bishop Sacrifice
048 18) Morphy's Mate
050 19) Pillsbury's Mate
052 20) The Crafty Bg8
054 21) The Rook Sacrifice on g7
056 22) A Knight on f5 (1)
058 23) A Knight on f5 (2)
060 24) Rook Decoy on h7
062 25) The Queen & Bishop Mate
064 26) Greco's Mate
066 27) More Qg6 Bombshells
068 28) Korchnoi's Manoeuvre
070 29) The Bxh6 Sacrifice
072 30) The Queen & Bishop Line-up
074 31) Removing the f6 Defender
076 32) The Greek Gift (1)
078 33) The Greek Gift (2)
080 34) The Greek Gift (3)
082 35) The Greek Gift (4)
084 36) Mate on the Long Diagonal
086 37) Weak Dark Squares
088 38) Blackburne's Other Mate
090 39) Lolli's Mates
092 40) Back-Rank Mates
094 41) The Refined Back-Rank Mate
096 42) More Bank-Rank Mates
098 43) Rook Deflections
100 44) Two Rooks on the Seventh
102 45) Anderssen's Mate
104 46) Pawn on the Seventh Rank
106 47) Legall's Mate
108 48) The Bishop Sacrifice on f7
110 49) Knight Sacrifices on f7 & e6
112 50) The Fischer Trap
114 Test Positions
121 Test Solutions
123 Glossary
125 And Finally... What to do if Dad is Garry Kasparov
127 For Further Improvement
With its largish size pages, abundance of diagrams and generous layout, this fine-looking hardback is designed to capture the imagination of kids who have already learned the basics of chess and are hungry to learn more. And what could be more exciting than discovering all sorts of ways to checkmate? 50 different mating patterns are each given a section, e.g. Anastasia's Mate, Damiano's Mate, The Double Rook sacrifice, Qg6 Bombshells, The Bxh6 Sacrifice, Mate on the Long Diagonal, The Fischer Trap etc etc. A modern version of that wonderful old classic The Art of Checkmate by Renaud and Kahn, still in print by Dover Publications.Chess Monthly, September 1998