Chess For Dummies

James Eade became a US Chess Federation Chess Master in 1981. International organizations awarded him the master title in 1990 (for correspondence) and in 1993 (for regular tournament play). Today, he writes about and teaches chess.

• Introduction 1Part 1: Laying the Groundwork for Champion Chess 5Chapter 1: Tackling Chess Basics 7Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Pieces and Their Powers 21Chapter 3: Exploring the Elements of Chess 39Chapter 4: Going after the King: Check, Stalemate, and Checkmate 63Chapter 5: Making a Few Special Moves 79Chapter 6: Got Notation? Reading and Writing about Chess 85Part 2: Gaining Chess Know-How 97Chapter 7: Trying Out Tactics and Combinations in Hand-to-Hand Combat 99Chapter 8: Sacrifices: Understanding When It’s Better to Give than to Receive 125Chapter 9: Building Pattern Recognition 137Chapter 10: Recognizing Advanced Pawn Formations 157Chapter 11: Mastering Mating Patterns 171Part 3: Game Time: Putting Your Chess Foot Forward 189Chapter 12: Selecting Your Strategy: The Principles of Play 191Chapter 13: Coming on Strong in the Opening 209Chapter 14: Making Headway during the Middlegame 227Chapter 15: Exiting with Style in the Endgame 239Part 4: Getting into Advanced Action 263Chapter 16: Playing in Competition 265Chapter 17: Hitting the Net with Computer Chess 279Part 5: The Part of Tens 289Chapter 18: The Ten Most Famous Chess Games of All Time 291Chapter 19: The Ten Best Players of All Time (and a Few Others) 321Chapter 20: Ten (or So) Cool Facts about Kids and Chess 345Part 6: Appendixes 349Appendix A: A Glossary of Chess 351Appendix B: Chess Resources 371Index 375

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