Start Playing Chess!: Learn the Rules of the Royal Game

Hertan, Charles

ISBN 10: 9056916866 / ISBN 13: 9789056916862

Verlag: New In Chess, 2016

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Titel: Start Playing Chess!: Learn the Rules of the...

Verlag: New In Chess

Erscheinungsdatum: 2016

Einband: paperback

Zustand: Very Good

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Award-winning author Charles Hertan has written a lively and user-friendly chess primer for kids and other beginners. You will meet all the pieces, learn all the important rules and get tips on how to start playing real games yourself.Charles Hertan teaches you about the ins and outs of the chess board, how the pieces move, the value of the pieces, capturing (and recapturing!) enemy pieces, check, checkmate and stalemate, illegal moves, pawn promotion (including underpromotion!), castling, En Passant pawn capturing,various tips and tricks.Chess is not just an exciting game that brings fun to millions of people around the globe. More and more educators and scientists agree that playing chess has lots of benefits and is a wonderful educational tool. Playing chess improves your brain functions: your memory, cognitive abilities, attention-span, decision making and strategic thinking!Charles Hertan says: Kids love chess despite the fact that it is good for them . His cheerfully laid-out book makes it easy for everyone to start playing games and have fun.

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Charles Hertan is a FIDE Master from Massachusetts who has been teaching kids for more than thirty years. He won the ChessCafe Book of the Year Award and authored the best-selling Power Chess for Kids books.