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    Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems for Players New to the Game by Bruce Pandolfini

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    • Pub. Date: August 1993
    • 272pp
    • Sales Rank: 231,649

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      • Pub. Date: August 1993
      • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
      • Format: Paperback, 272pp
      • Sales Rank: 231,649

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      Now even beginners can reap the rewards of Pandolfini's acclaimed teaching system. Over 300 problems, tailored to beginning players, encompass everything a player needs to learn, from the basic rules and vocabulary to the moves of various chessmen to sophisticated strategies. 300 line drawings.

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      Now even beginners can reap the rewards of Pandolfini's acclaimed teaching system. Over 300 problems, tailored to beginning players, encompass everything a player needs to learn, from the basic rules and vocabulary to the moves of various chessmen to sophisticated strategies. 300 line drawings.

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      Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems for Players New to the Gameby Anonymous

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      September 20, 2008: Simplistic problems for the beginner to work on! Not easy to find problem books for super beginners but here we have one. A good way to learn the basic fundamentals of tactics.

      Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems for Players New to the Gameby Anonymous

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      November 28, 2006: If you are past the stage of having learned the basic rules of chess then you are ready to enbark of the adventure of learning chess strategy. And, what is most likely to result in wins and losses for an advanced beginner is not having a deep knowledge of openings or endgames, but TACTICS! If you were thinking of getting one of those 5,000 combination and tactics books you should hold off because you will be overwhelmed with a lot of postions that are not likely to come up in your games. Getting a book on basic chess tactics, containing the likely tactics you are going to see in play is most useful. Now there are a variety of ways and books to accomplish this. 'Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems' is a good starting place. Then you might consider one of the dozens of more complicated tactics books or even getting a book on Opening Chess Traps to go along with this one. This is one of Mr. Pandolfini's best books.


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