How to Play Chess

✍ Scribed by Dorling Kindersley

• Publisher: DK Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 74
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Suitable for beginning to intermediate players ages 8 and up, How to Play Chess uses computer-generated 3-D illustrations to bring the game to life, teaching kids everything from the strengths and weaknesses of individual pieces to more advanced strategies and techniques.

Author Claire Summerscale, a professional chess player and champion, stimulates young chess players at every stage. "Master challenges" reinforce the skills explained in the guide's step-by-step instructions, and solutions are included at the back of the book. Kids can even play as they learn with the press-out board and chess pieces included.

Help your child become a champion of the world's oldest and most popular skill with How to Play Chess.

Previously published as Chess*.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents 3......Page 5
The game of chess 4......Page 6
INTRODUCTION 6......Page 9
The object of the game 8......Page 10
Starting positions 10......Page 12
THE PIECES 12......Page 15
The Rook 14......Page 16
The Bishop 16......Page 18
The Queen 18......Page 20
The Knight 20......Page 22
The Pawn 22......Page 24
The King 24......Page 26
Special moves 26......Page 28
WINNING YOUR FIRST GAMES 28......Page 31
Piece value and exchanging 30......Page 32
Developing your pieces 32......Page 34
Attack and defense 34......Page 36
Four-Move Checkmate 36......Page 38
Two-Rook Checkmate 38......Page 40
Drawn games and stalemate 40......Page 42
King and Queen Checkmate 42......Page 44
TACTICS 44......Page 47
Forks, pins, and skewers 46......Page 48
Fried Liver 48......Page 50
Sacrifice 50......Page 52
Back-rank checkmates 52......Page 54
G- and H-file checkmates 54......Page 56
The Greek Gift 56......Page 58
Removing the defender 58......Page 60
Seventh Heaven 60......Page 62
Discovered attacks 62......Page 64
The Duke of Brunswick game 64......Page 66
Glossary 68......Page 70
Solutions 70......Page 72
Index 72......Page 74