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An Introduction to Chess
Getting Started 4
Viewing the Chessboard 5
Introducing the Pieces 6
Setting Up the Board 9
How the King Moves and Captures 10
How Rooks Move and Capture 12
How Bishops Move and Capture 13
How the Queen Moves and Captures 14
How Knights Move and Capture 15
How Pawns Move and Capture 16
Chess Notation 17
Protect Your Pieces 19
Special Moves
Checks and Checkmate 22
Stalemates and Other Draws 24
Discovered Checks and Double Checks 28
Promoting (and Under-Promoting) Your Pawns 31
Castling 33
The En Passant Capture 35
Rook Strategy
Rooks Belong on Open Files 38
Advance Your Rooks to the 7th Rank 40
Simple Back-Rank Checkmates 41
Fun with Active Rooks 42
Rooks Belong Behind Passed Pawns 43
Knight Strategy
Move the Knights to the Center of the Board 46
Place Your Knights Where the Enemy Pawns Can't Attack Them 48
Knight Forks Are Fun! 49
Bishop Strategy
Bad Bishops and Good Bishops 54
Bishops Can Dominate Knights 55
Fianchettos 56
Bishops of Opposite Color 57
Skewers and Pins 58
Bad Bishops Against Good Knights 59
Bishops Can Dominate Rooks 60
Pawn Strategy
Don't Double Your Pawns 64
Pawn Islands 65
Some Doubled Pawns Are Strong 66
Pawn Chains 67
Pawn Majorities 69
Isolated Pawns 70
Backward Pawns 71
Hanging Pawns 72
Pawn Masses 75
Pawns Can Fork, Too! 76
Passed Pawn Blockaders 77
Every Pawn Move Creates a Weakness 78
King and Queen Strategy
Don't Develop Your Queen Early 82
Beat Back Early Queen Aggression 83
Safeguard Your Queen 84
Don't Risk Your King! 85
Castling Long or Short 87
Don't Push Your Pawns in Front of a Castled King 88
Opening Strategy
Fight for the Center of the Board 92
An Ideal Setup 94
Knights Before Bishops 96
Limit Your Early Pawn Moves 98
Complete Your Development Before You Attack 100
Gain Time 102
Limit Exchanges 103
Avoid Exchanging Bishops for Knights 107
Opening Variations
Double King Pawn Openings 110
Other Replies to 1.e2-e4 118
Double Queen Pawn Openings 123
Indian Defenses 126
Two Bad Openings 129
Common Opening Formations
King's Indian Attack 132
Colle System 135
Hedgehog 136
Avant-Garde 138
Dragon 139
French Winawer 141
Stonewall 143
Benoni 144
Middlegame Strategy
Five Steps to Victory 148
Candidate Moves and Planning 153
Responding to Threats 160
Recaptures 165
Elementary Checkmates
Two Queens 168
Queen and Rook 171
Two Rooks 172
King and Queen 173
King and Rook 176
King and Two Bishops 180
King, Bishop, and Knight 184
Attacking the King
Smothered Mate 190
Back Rank Mate 192
Gueridon Mate 194
Greco's Mate 196
Epaulette Mate 197
Anastasia's Mate 198
Boden's Mate 199
Blackburne's Mate 201
Lolli's Mate 202
Pillsbury's Mate 205
Domiano's Mate 208
Legal's Mate 212
Attacking Themes and Common Sacrifices
The Dragon Variation 216
The English Attack 218
Common Knight Sacrifices 221
Bishop Sacrifices 227
Exchange Sacrifices 236
An Introduction to Endgames
King and Pawn 244
Rook and Pawn 252
Bishop and Pawn 257
Knight and Pawn 261
Queen and Pawn 265
Glossary 272
Index 276
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Tonya Stevenson
reviewed Teach Yourself VISUALLY Chess on May 14, 2017
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Chess
Years ago, I took this skills assessment test that determined (A) I am not very observant and (B) I am lacking in foresight. I didn't care so much about the former (the unobservant never do) but the latter concerned me. I was told to take up chess.
Chess books are, in general, very notation-heavy. I am told the notation becomes quite easy to read once you get the hang of it, but I don't love chess, so I chose this book because it used photography instead of notation.
This book is useful in a few key ways: First, it teaches you the basics of chess - and by "basics", I mean beyond the moves of each piece. You learn about developing your pieces, activating the minor pieces before Queens and Rooks, fighting for the center, pawn structure, and basic middle and end game strategies. Second, it provides a scattered, but nonetheless interesting, historical account of the game, including which openings were popular in the 1500's, etc.
I soon played Apple's chess program (set to a moderate difficulty) and was handily defeated - not once, but five or six times. So, to sum up, the book is good at teaching fundamentals, but developing an intuition for the game realistically requires lots (perhaps years) of practice.
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