Comprehensive Chess Course: Learn Chess in 12 Lessons

✍ Scribed by Roman Pelts, Lev Alburt

Publisher: Lev Alburt
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 223
Edition: 4
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Amateur chess players have a new weapon in the battle to improve their game. Based on the famous, formerly secret "From Beginner to Master" course of study developed over decades in the Soviet Union, the Comprehensive Chess Course provides students with all the essential information they need to learn chess and then to improve their skills steadily and efficiently. The contents of this book and its companion volume 2 (sold separately) include every diagram and every problem, and leave little to chance. The Course is filled with what has worked well in practice in Russian classrooms and teaches all the rules of chess, all the fundamentals, and how to visualize the board and piecesthe prerequisite for success in chess.

✦ Table of Contents

Volume I
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME I: AN INTRODUCTION
GETTING STARTED
GETTING TO KNOW CHESS
COMPREHENSIVE SELF-STUDY
TEACHING CHESS
VISUALIZATION: THE KEY TO SUCCESS
NOTES ABOUT VOLUME I
TESTING STUDENTS
HOMEWORK SUGGESTIONS
FEAR OF LOSING
Lesson One
HOMEWORK
HOMEWORK ANSWERS
Lesson Two
HOMEWORK
Homework Answers
Lesson Three
HOMEWORK
Homework Answers
Lesson Four
HOMEWORK
Homework Answers
Lesson Five
HOMEWORK
HOMEWORK ANSWERS
Lesson Six
HOMEWORK
Homework Answers
Lesson Seven
HOMEWORK
Homework Answers
Lesson Eight
HOMEWORK
HOMEWORK ANSWERS
Lesson Nine
HOMEWORK
HOMEWORK ANSWERS
Lesson Ten
HOMEWORK
Homework Answers
Lesson Eleven
HOMEWORK
Lesson Twelve
Test One
ROMAN PELTS
LEV ALBURT

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