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Check Mates

Author : Stewart Foster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471172244
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Check Mates written by Stewart Foster and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Funny and heartfelt with a cunning twist. Stewart Foster is a grandmaster.' - ROSS WELFORD 'An inspirational underdog story and a chilling mystery! A winning combination.' - DAVID SOLOMONS Some people think that I’m a problem child, that I’m lazy and never pay attention in lessons. But the thing is, I’m not a problem child at all. I’m just a child with a problem. Felix is struggling at school. His ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate and his grades are slipping. Everyone keeps telling him to try harder, but no one seems to understand just how hard he finds it. When Mum suggests Felix spends time with his grandfather, Felix can’t think of anything worse. Granddad hasn’t been the same since Grandma died. Plus he’s always trying to teach Felix boring chess. But sometimes the best lessons come in the most unexpected of places, and Granddad soon shows Felix that there’s everything to play for. Praise for ALL THE THINGS THAT COULD GO WRONG 'A moving, humane, funny portrait of two very different boys discovering what connects us all.' Kiran Milwood Hargrave, author ofThe Girl of Ink and Stars ‘It’s amazing!’ Ross Welford, author of Time Travelling with a Hamster 'I loved it.' Lisa Thompson, author of The Goldfish Boy 'A touching, funny, gripping read that tackles important issues in a sensitive and thoroughly enjoyable way. Highly recommended.' Stuart Robinson, author of If Ever I Fall 'A timely story of courage and reminder of what we all share.' Christopher Edge, author ofThe Many Worlds of Albie Bright 'Powerful and warm ... this will linger long in the mind.' Guardian Praise for THE BUBBLE BOY, winner of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award in 2016 ‘Poignant, hopeful and heartbreaking.’ Fiona Noble – Children’s Editor, The Bookseller 'Deeply moving and utterly gripping . . . Stewart Foster carries off an astonishing feat of storytelling in this exceptional book' Julia Eccleshare, lovereading.co.uk ‘A gripping and deeply moving book.’ Jamila Gavin, author of Coram Boy 'One thing we know about good books is their amazing ability to inspire empathy in the reader; to explore ideas and viewpoints that arise from experiences that are out of our own realm. The Bubble Boy does this with warmth, quirkiness and a light-hearted touch.' Guardian

1001 Deadly Checkmates

Author : John Nunn
Publisher : Gambit Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781906454258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book 1001 Deadly Checkmates written by John Nunn and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all chess-players, from beginners to world champions, from kids to seniors, delivering checkmate is the greatest thrill the game has to offer. The ability to spot checkmates is a vital skill - and this easy-to-use book shows you how it is done. With the help of Grandmaster John Nunn, you will be ready to shock your next opponent with a deadly checkmate, whether in a school match, a club tournament - or even a championship game! By focusing exclusively on positions from real games, ranging from junior events to grandmaster encounters, Nunn ensures that the mates featured are those which arise most often in real life. He also highlights themes and ideas that are often missed in practice. While solving these puzzles, your all-important 'mental library' of patterns will grow, leading to an immediate increase in your playing strength. All 1001 puzzle positions have been carefully checked, and are graded by theme and difficulty. Points are awarded for finding the checkmate, so you can measure your skill. Most of the puzzles are suitable for novice and junior players. The last chapter challenges you with 'extreme checkmates', but don't worry: you'll be ready for them!

Fundamental Checkmates

Author : Antonio Gude
Publisher : Gambit Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781910093801
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Fundamental Checkmates written by Antonio Gude and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess might seem a complex and mysterious game, but the ultimate goal is simple: checkmate. Checkmate can occur in all stages of the game, from snap mates in the opening, through middlegame attacks to simplified endgames. Learning how to use our pieces together to corner the enemy king is a fundamental skill that all chess-players must constantly practise, sharpen and develop. This book lays out, in systematic and thorough fashion, a wide range of mating patterns and techniques, in particular showing how each piece-pair can combine to deliver mate. A working knowledge of these ideas enables players to move on to mating combinations, where pieces lay down their lives so that the remaining forces can deliver mate. Gude explains an amazing variety of tactical devices, and illustrates them in unforgettable style with some of the most brilliant mating attacks from practice, new and old. There are chapters on how to attack kings in the centre, as well as standard (and other!) attacks against the castled position. This is a true textbook of checkmate; readers will never be short of mating ideas, and will instinctively know when there is a possibility to launch an attack, or when they must parry the opponent's threats. Fundamental Checkmates also features more than 300 exercises with full solutions. Antonio Gude is an extremely experienced chess writer and teacher from Spain. Several of his books on tactics and for beginners are long-standing best-sellers in Spanish language. Gude has also translated a great many books, including some of the classics of chess literature.

100 Easy Checkmates

Author : Larry Evans
Publisher : Cardoza Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580425194
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book 100 Easy Checkmates written by Larry Evans and published by Cardoza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a great book for beginning players, especially children. These easy one- and two-move checkmates are not only fun but also great training tools. Set up for quick learning, the author presents one hundred basic mating situations in large-sized, easy-to-understand diagrams. You are asked to solve the mate, and then shown how to solve the problem using plain words. Both challenging and fun, this practical guide is great for all beginning players. 144 pages

202 Checkmates for Children

Author : Fred Wilson
Publisher : Cardoza
ISBN 13 : 9781580421416
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book 202 Checkmates for Children written by Fred Wilson and published by Cardoza. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to children, present 202 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill kids as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for kids! The authors should know - they have used these puzzles in their lessons for years.

Learn Chess the Right Way!

Author : Susan Polgar
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1941270417
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Learn Chess the Right Way! written by Susan Polgar and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE POLGAR WAY TO BETTER CHESS! Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. It introduces the most important checkmate and material-winning tactics, as well as defensive techniques to the new chess player. Each of the five volumes will consist of 500 puzzles. In Book 1, the focus is on one-move checkmate exercises. In each of the first five chapters, a specific piece delivers checkmate (in Chapter 1 – the queen, Chapter 2 – the rook, and so on). In Chapters 6-8, checkmates which involve special tactics (such as pins, discovered attacks, etc.) are introduced. Chapter 9 has a mixed collection of puzzles, without any hint about which piece is to deliver checkmate. Chapter 10 builds on the previous 9 chapters, and introduces basic patterns of checkmate in two moves. With over 40 years of experience as a world-class player and coach, international grandmaster Susan Polgar has developed the most effective way to help young players and beginners – Learn Chess the Right Way. Let her show you the way to understanding the most common and critical patterns and let her show you the way to becoming a better player. SUSAN POLGAR is a winner of four Women’s World Championships and the top-ranked woman chess player in the United States. She became the #1 woman player in the world at 15 and remained in the top 3 for over 20 years. In 2013, she received the U.S. Coach of the Year Award and the following year, she was named the Chess Trainer of the Year by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). She thus became the first person in history to be accorded both honors. Under her guidance, SPICE chess teams at both Texas Tech University and Webster University have won a combined five consecutive National Division I Collegiate Chess Championships.

303 Tricky Checkmates

Author : Fred Wilson
Publisher : Cardoza
ISBN 13 : 9781580423649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book 303 Tricky Checkmates written by Fred Wilson and published by Cardoza. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers take on 303 awesome endgame chess problems not only as fun puzzle-solving tests but a great training tool as well. Both a fascinating challenge and great training tool, these 303 awesome endgame puzzles are not only super fun to solve but great for beginners, advanced beginners, and intermediate players to use as tools to win chess games. This collection of 303 two-, three- and four-move checkmates for all levels of chess players are presented in order of difficulty, from simple to very complex, and challenges are provided from both the black's and the white's point of view so players learn to see both sides of the board. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority.

Checkmate for Children

Author : Kevin Stark
Publisher : New In Chess
ISBN 13 : 9056914634
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Checkmate for Children written by Kevin Stark and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginners of all ages will win more games after studying this easy-to-follow book. This isn?t another random collection of puzzles, but a systematic course that teaches you how to checkmate your opponent. Experienced chess coach Kevin Stark explains elementary mating patterns in all the important positions and provides many tests to see if you have really mastered the technique. A fun book and a great help in achieving the ultimate goal in chess.

Checkmates for Winning Chess Players

Author : Bill Robertie
Publisher : Cardoza
ISBN 13 : 9781580423700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Checkmates for Winning Chess Players written by Bill Robertie and published by Cardoza. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Players learn the fun and easy way to mate opponents and win chess games. The goal of chess is to checkmate the opponent's king, but to be achieve this, the player must know the basic combinations necessary to win. Easy to read and right to the point, this new retitled edition of Master Checkmate Strategy shows players how to finish opponents with decisive checkmates. Players learn all the essential mates needed to be a winning player including the scholar’s mate, mate with two bishops, the corridor mate, the smothered mate, five patterns of diagonal mates, king hunts, and the key strategies needed to set up future mates. Each mating concept is fully explained in easy-to-understand language with examples, game situations, insightful commentary and more than 120 diagrams so readers understand the thinking and game plan behind every move and strategy. Robertie also shows advanced, surprising and unconventional mates, the most effective pieces needed to win, how to work two rooks into an unstoppable attack, wield a queen advantage with deadly intent, and even how to mate opponents with just a single pawn advantage.

People, Places, Checkmates

Author : Alexey W. Root
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 : 1591588502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book People, Places, Checkmates written by Alexey W. Root and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen chess-enhanced lesson plans address National Council for the Social Studies standards for grades 4–8 and help prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess. In this unique volume, 15 lesson plans teach culture, history, geography, and citizenship through the history of chess and its relationship to art, civics, culture, economics, geography, government, and technology. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. Each 40-minute lesson plan includes an NCSS theme, materials and sources, procedure, and evaluation. Each lesson is followed by an optional 10-25 minute chess exercise, composed of teacher background, procedure and materials, expected time, and evaluation. A separate chapter teaches the chess basics necessary for your students to actually play chess and successfully complete the optional exercises. Lesson plans complement upper elementary and middle school curricula in world history, U.S. history, geography, and social studies.

Mastering Mates

Author : Jon Edwards
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1936490978
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Mastering Mates written by Jon Edwards and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Train Your Brain to Recognize Checkmates! This first book in the Mastering Mate series presents a challenge for players relatively new to chess and for readers seeking a novel and interesting set of puzzles. Books on chess tactics can overwhelm beginners and young learners. These relatively simple, carefully chosen exercises serve to illustrate the wide variety of examples of checkmate, as well as showing off the harmonious cooperation of chess pieces delivering the final blow. You will certainly learn what checkmate is and how to deliver it. And you will learn how chess pieces can coordinate their influence on the board. Every one of the 1,111 positions in this book is from an actual game. Each position has a single, unique solution. And all of the solutions have been carefully checked. Most of these problems are relatively easy, but not all of them! Indeed, many involve solutions are not completely obvious. In fact, some of the masters who played these games actually missed the mates! With Mastering Mates 1, you will fine tune your checkmate radar, with greater success and enjoyment of the royal game sure to follow!

Chess Queen Checkmates Anthology.2.

Author : Grigoriy Burtayev
Publisher : Grigoriy Burtayev
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chess Queen Checkmates Anthology.2. written by Grigoriy Burtayev and published by Grigoriy Burtayev. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess Queen Checkmates Anthology.2. AWARDCHESS Chess Academy@pdf games. 410 odt pages. By Grigoriy Burtayev - AWARDCHESS@. All examples are from the pgn. games of the AWARDCHESS - Chess Coach Grigoriy Burtayev Chess Champ /Tournament Point Leader/, at the Tournament Point Leader-board, at www.chess.com, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All Time Tournament Point Leader, at www.chess.com 2008-2015-…

People, Places, Checkmates

Author : Alexey W. Root
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1591588529
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book People, Places, Checkmates written by Alexey W. Root and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen chess-enhanced lesson plans address National Council for the Social Studies standards for grades 4–8 and help prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess. In this unique volume, 15 lesson plans teach culture, history, geography, and citizenship through the history of chess and its relationship to art, civics, culture, economics, geography, government, and technology. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. Each 40-minute lesson plan includes an NCSS theme, materials and sources, procedure, and evaluation. Each lesson is followed by an optional 10-25 minute chess exercise, composed of teacher background, procedure and materials, expected time, and evaluation. A separate chapter teaches the chess basics necessary for your students to actually play chess and successfully complete the optional exercises. Lesson plans complement upper elementary and middle school curricula in world history, U.S. history, geography, and social studies.

303 Tricky Checkmates

Author : Fred Wilson
Publisher : Cardoza Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580425232
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book 303 Tricky Checkmates written by Fred Wilson and published by Cardoza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating challenge and great training tool, these two- three- and four-move checkmates are great for beginning, intermediate, and expert players. Mates are in order of difficulty, from simple to very complex positions. Learn the standard patterns for cornering the king, corridor and support mates, attraction and deflection sacrifices, pins and annihilation, the quiet move, and the dreaded zugzwang. Mate challenges are presented from both Blacks and Whites perspective so players learn to see both sides of the board. Examples from old classics to the new millenium illustrate a wide range of ideas. This book is lots of fun and an easy way for a player to improve skills! 192 pages

The Checkmate Patterns Manual

Author : Raf Mesotten
Publisher : Chessable
ISBN 13 : 9789493257290
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book The Checkmate Patterns Manual written by Raf Mesotten and published by Chessable. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing more satisfying than finishing a chess game with a checkmate. All essential mating patterns, some with intriguing names, are explained in full in this course. You will review every pattern. Master them. And test yourself with 1.000 exercises at all levels of difficulty. These are the killer combinations that will win you games: Anastasia, Greco, Hook, Arabian, Vukovic, Smothered, Suffocation, Corner, Morphy, Pillsbury, Lolli, Opera, Damiano, Max Lange, Dovetail, Swallow's Tail, David & Goliath, Boden, Balestra and the list goes on and on and on. Raf Mesotten is an average club player from Belgium, but he scored a big hit with this Chessable course, which has since been finetuned thanks to continuous feedback of enthusiastic chess improvers. His fans were amazed by the simplicity and the completeness of the course. But most important, they started spotting checkmates in their own games.

212 Surprising Checkmates

Author : Bruce Alberston
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1936490358
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book 212 Surprising Checkmates written by Bruce Alberston and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deliver the Coup de Grâce! With this instructive manual, players can learn to concentrate on one-, two- and three-move checkmates, focusing on their opponents� last moves and keeping alert to new possibilities, rather than getting blinded by previous calculations. Written by two experienced chess teachers, this volumes first 100 exercises concern checkmates in one move, while the remaining exercises represent game-like positions for checkmates in two and three moves. All are designed to increase a player�s skill and speed analyzing and solving chess problems. This is an updated and expanded version of 202 Surprising Checkmates which was released in 1998.

1000 Checkmate Combinations

Author : Victor Henkin
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849940959
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book 1000 Checkmate Combinations written by Victor Henkin and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This truly outstanding book, first published in Russian in the 1970s and regarded as a classic, contains everything you need to know about how to deliver checkmate. 1000 Checkmate Combinations contains a wealth of elegant and sophisticated chess tactics as well as systematic and effective instruction. Each chapter covers a different piece or combination of pieces that is able to deliver checkmate, and provides illustrative templates for just about every mating formation. By working through the book, readers will develop their ability to recognise the potential for checkmate, as well as the know-how to execute one. Clearly written and beautifully organised, it will appeal to all chess players but particularly club players.