In this book, I. A. Horowitz, Chess Editor of the New York Times and former U.S. Open Champion, applies some of the ideas and convictions acquired from thirty-five years of playing, teaching and analyzing the royal game. He emphasizes the tactical aspects of the game: how to recognize the big chance and hit hard when it occurs. He also stresses the ideas and methods in opening play, rather than the routine memorizing of variations that takes the joy out of chess for so many beginners.
When you have completed this book, you will be able to play chess with pleasure and some ability.

Chess for Beginners: A Picture Guide Including Photographs and Diagrams for Self-Teaching

Horowitz, Al

Reference

Harper-perennial

Clear, concise, and written in accessible language, Chess Self-Teacher reviews basic chess strategy in eight lessons, taking players from the basics to checkmates, pawn endings, minor tactics, mating combinations, and strategic objectives.

Chess Self-Teacher: Eight Lessons with Quizzes and Reviews

Chess for Beginners

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

This book is in very good condition.

Chess Self-Teacher

HarperCollins Publishers Canad

First Book of Chess

Reinfeld,Fred

Barnes&Noble

This volume has assembled 175 chess traps, shown in their entirety from first move to the mate or resignation or decisive loss of material. The wide range of baits, themes, and motifs described must be a part of every good chess player's arsenal.

New Traps In the Chess Opening

From Morphy to Fischer: History of the World Chess Championships

Macmillan

This book tells the story and the drama of the Chess Match of the Century. There have been many books on the 1972 Match between Fischer and Spassky for the World Chess Championship. However, this book is different from the others in that it was written by professional writers who wrote regularly for The New York Times. The quality of the writing is superior. It also does not bore the non-chess players who are likely to be reading this book. It does not contain technical variations that were not played in the actual games. It was only because his results showed that he was clearly the strongest player in the world that Lt. Col. Edmondson, President of the United States Chess Federation, and Max Euwe, President of the World Chess Federation ("FIDE"), went to extraordinary lengths to get him to play. Meanwhile, the rest of us who knew Fischer watched from the sidelines, feeling almost certain that Fischer would not sit down to play, or if he did start the match he would never complete the schedule. We were proven wrong and they were proven right. Included in this reprint is a new introduction and all moves of the twenty games actually played.

Fischer / Spassky Report on the Chess Match of the Century

SCHONBERG, Harold C.

Roberts, Richard

RESHEVSKY, Samuel

Ishi Press

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