Chess : Featuring Internet and Computer Games

by BURGESS GRAHAM

• ISBN13: 9780786707256
• ISBN10: 0786707259
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-03
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

This comprehensive, up-to-date, all-purpose guide to chess is guaranteed to improve the game of the novice and to enable players of even limited experience to advance to good club level or better. Not only does this invaluable volume illuminate the elegance and mysteries of the classic chess game, it has also been revised to bring readers up to the minute about the myriad possibilities of chess on the Internet. Among the outstanding features of this user-friendly mammoth book are a complete guide to the main chess openings, hundreds of test positions for players of all standards, courses in tactics and attacking strategy, practical advice for further study, and an exceptionally helpful glossary as well as information about international chess events. In addition to providing a history of some of the greatest games ever played, it forecasts the exciting future for chess around the world and on the Internet.

Table of Contents

Foreword	1	(4)
Grandmaster John Nunn
Introduction	5	(3)
Introduction to the Second Edition	8	(1)
Symbols and Abbreviations	8	(1)
Frequently Asked Questions	9	(5)
Part One: Mastering Chess
Delivering Mate	14	(19)
Solutions to Delivering Mate	33	(6)
Tactics	39	(13)
Combinations	52	(23)
Solutions to Combinations	75	(14)
Endgames	89	(19)
Solutions to Endgame Challenges	108	(2)
Chess Openings	110	(2)
Open Games	112	(39)
Semi-open Games	151	(49)
Queen's Pawn Openings	200	(66)
Flank Openings and Miscellaneous Systems	266	(12)
Attack and Defence	278	(66)
Solutions to Attack and Defence Tests	344	(1)
Part Two: The World of Chess
Beginning Chess	345	(9)
The Chess Clock	354	(6)
Competitive Chess	360	(6)
Computer Chess	366	(42)
Online Chess and the World Wide Web	408	(18)
Women's, Veterans', Junior and Correspondence Chess	426	(10)
Endgame Studies	436	(10)
Chess in the Media	446	(7)
Part Three: Essential Chess Information
Glossary of Chess Terms	453	(42)
A Brief History of the World Chess Championship	495	(3)
Appendix A: How to Play Chess	498	(9)
Appendix B: Chess Notation	507	(13)
Appendix C: The Basic Mates	520	(5)
Appendix D: Chess Demographics	525	(3)
Appendix E: Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading	528	(2)
Index of Games and Part Games	530	(6)
Index of Openings	536