Square One by Bruce Pandolfini
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- Pub. Date: December 1994
- 256pp
- Sales Rank: 694,675
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: December 1994
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
- Format: Paperback, 256pp
- Sales Rank: 694,675
- Series: Fireside Chess Library
- ISBN-13: 9780671884246
- ISBN: 0671884247
- Edition Number: 2
Synopsis
From ever-popular instructor Bruce Pandolfini comes this entertaining, interactive, and effective book for teaching young chess players and other newcomers to the game. Filled with hundreds of questions and answers, fill-in-the-blanks, and true-or-false posers, Square One combines traditional chess drills with diverting games and problems to stimulate the analytical skills of beginners of all ages.
Besides covering the basics - the board, moves, rules, and notation - Square One goes on to include information on attacks, checkmate, draws, and special rules, giving the beginner a broad overview of the game. With more than 200 instructional diagrams, and answers to all questions and problems, it is a complete workbook for chess players starting at square one.
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Stay at square one!by Anonymous
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November 26, 2008: This is the most basic chess book I have ever seen. Far too basic even for children as its oversized pages and diagrams lack the colorful illustrations of other children's books and the contents are presented in a boring manner. There is, in all, very little material covered within the large pages of this book. Look at one of the many other children's chess books or even a book such as "Chess for Everyone" (very complete and easy to read) or "Learn Chess" (the one written by Alexander & Beach).
A bit too basic!by Anonymous
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September 19, 2008: This book with over-sized pages will get you started with moving the pieces and showing you the rules you need to know to play a game of chess. But why waist your time and spend the money on a book that will not take you very far when there are plenty of books that not only introduce the most basic rules but give you a solid foundation of strategy? I cannot really recommend this book for any beginner for this reason.
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