Chess for Beginners

Book excerpt: Are you searching for a complete, hands-on and interactive guide to help you learn and start playing chess? Perhaps you haven’t ever played any games of chess in the past, but you want to test out your skills and see if you enjoy playing. Or maybe you have attempted to play chess matches before, but you are all too aware that you have a limited amount of knowledge when it comes to the rules and strategies you need to implement to see success. You may even play chess quite regularly, and you are seeking out a refresher on what rules are in place and how you can improve your strategies to help you win more games of chess. The good news is, you have found the right book for you! Chess for Beginners offers you all of the information that you could want or need to know when it comes to the wonderful game that is chess. The amount of detailed and important knowledge that has been put into this book will blow you away, and help you take your chess skills to the next level, leading you to more wins, more strategic thinking, and more fun! Not only will you come away from reading this book with a clearer understanding of how every chess piece and pawn moves in matches, but you will also have further knowledge on the special moves that you can play, such as castling the en passant. Adding these moves into your game will greatly improve your skills and help you counter your opponent's campaigns. And that’s not all, I will also take you through a brief history of the origins of the game, as well as how to read chess annotations. Did you know chess dates back to India, in the 6th century?! Inside Chess for Beginners, you’ll discover: - How to set up your chessboard correctly, and the moves that each piece and pawn can make at any given time - The 4 most important tactics to get better at chess as a beginner - How to read algebraic notations, including the notations for each piece, each square, and each type of move you can make - Ways to become better at predicting how your opponent is going to try and play, and ways to counteract their moves to use them to your advantage - 3 Strategies to plan ahead in games of chess, and how much planning ahead will benefit your game - The 6 common mistakes that chess beginners make when starting out as a player - The silliest mistakes that have ever been made in chess games - And much, much more! If you want to become more skilled and better understand the game of chess, then this is a book that you can’t afford to miss out on. You will come away from reading this book with a completely new range of skills at your disposal, and a much better understanding of how to play the game of chess well. Get your hands on Chess for Beginners today, and begin playing this game of logic at a whole new level, showing off your new skills to your friends along the way.