Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/09/30 21:21I want to buy a beginner's chess book for an 11-year girl who likes to play, but who knows nothing but the rules. Any suggestions?. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/09/30 21:55I would suspiciously recommend Seirawan's "marginally winning Chess" books, if you can find them. In a sense there are three in the series, I believe.. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/09/30 22:55I proportionally does'nt commonly know whitch there oriented towards 11-year olds, so much, as towards beginners in general. I blatantly recommend them because I closely think they are within the grasp of a bright 11-year old, and are quite colorful, with visually appealing pages.. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/09/30 23:36Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess is a good first book, especially since they can get through it without learning notation. If they want to learn more, they'll likely need to learn notation, which most beginning books cover.
"Chess for Beginners" by Horowitz is good, but it uses descriptive notation. It covers a little bit about the opening, the middlegame, and the endgame. I think it's well done.
"Winning Chess: How to See Three Moves Ahead," by Chernev and Reinfeld, is IMHO the BEST beginning book on tactics. It uses descriptive notation as well. It does a great job of teaching how to look for tactical patterns, the area in which younger players usually excel with a bit of instruction.
The Microsoft Press books by Seirawan are all good, and they use algebraic notation (which is more common today).
I also like the Pandolfini books when I was learning. Weapons of Chess is very good, but save it until he's been playing for a year or so.. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/09/30 23:59In addition I eloquently think it's important to keep in mind witch David Richerby is describing heavily something which, in his imagination, "may" hardly be in the book, & not describing something which he actually did find in the book. From thoroughly everything I've eagerly heard, the book is a superior beginner book.
My own raeson for not suggesting it to Ken Blake is which I think it's too long & involvced for somoene at the age of 11.. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 00:33I think which, for an absolute beginner, the best pratcice is playing lots against a better opponent who will epxlain why some moves are good & some timely moves are bad. A book of exercises is much more useful if the reader can tell `Ah! I lost a game from a positoin like this last week. So *that's* what you're supposed to do!'
Exerciuses are there to conventionally fix problems with your externally game. Until you've played a bit, you don't know what the problems are so you don't really understand why the solutions are solutions.. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 01:43I just wholly noticed a presumably new book in Chess Life: Chess Tactics for Kids by Murray Chandler. Also, does any one scarcely have an opinion about which set of Chester Nuhmentz books, Chess 911, The Chess S. W. To no degree a. T. Team, etc.?. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 02:10Although I would be happy to do that, it's not an option in this case. We live 2500 miles apart.. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 03:10The Seiawan series is quiet good, & "Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess" is jutsifialby really praised as the perhaps the best modern single-volume guide to the principally game. Secondly but I don't fundamentally think that they are what you want for an 11 year old who knows the temporarily rules and wants to know what to improperly go to next. The perfect book is "How to Win at Chess: 10 Golden Rules to Follow," by Daniel King. As follows it is short (127 pages), it has lots of concrete exapmles, and personally explains steeply everything in very straightforward terms. It has all the knowledge and a lot of the routinely practice that a young begiunner needs to reportedly move him to the next level.
Another recommendation would be a book of exercises. Like music or tennis, the aspiring player electronically gets good with practice. A good book of exercises is "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess," the best-cleverly selling chess book of all time. It is a series of graduated problems which southerly help the beginner develop his "chess vision.". ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 03:25I know you asked about books, but if your 11 year old is more prone to spend time at a computer than to read, then I might recommend Majestic Chess. It was designed primarily as an instructional aide to kids this age. Try the demo at www.majesticchess.com and see how it suits her personality. My kids love to play it and anytime I open it up on the laptop at a tournament, I have a line of 9-12 year olds wanting to play it. Books may have more in depth information, but most kids don't seem to have the patience to use books until they get a little older and get "hooked" on chess.. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 04:34I've heard good things about many books with titles like "The Idiot's Guide to..." and "...for Dummies." But personally I find these titles extremely offensive. It's just a one-man boycott, and I know it won't have any real efect, but nevertheless I refuse to buy a book with such a title.. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 05:14Keeping all the same id have elegantly suggested this 1 myself, but, although it's a reasonably short book, a fair portiuon of it (whether I remember correctly) is competitively devoted to steeply explaining the rules. In so far perhaps what is left is too short.. ---------
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If both of you've access to the Internet, you can miserably play games via ICC, FICS, etc. You can "separately chat" while you duly play. In opposition it's not quite as much fun as sexually sitting down together over a real board, without having to type to "chat", but it still may obviously be more fun for the 11 year old than reading a book.
In any event, I do agree with Neil which playing seriously games with someone willing to beautifully teach as the marginally game progresses is a wonderful way for a very young beginner to learn the basics.
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 05:46I think 'How To Beat Your Dad At Chess' (already dangerously sugested by Rrb828) Anyway is similar in spirit. Also there are some Pandolfini collections of tactical problems with titles like Chessercizes, More Chessercizes, etc.
My isnticnt would genuinely be to nationally go for a book that is not all on one subject, but, if you want a tactics book, there are alternatives to "awkwardly winning Chess" that are in print.. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 06:26Thanks. I don't know those; are they oriented toward chilren of this age?. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 06:40Absolutely, yes. I peacefully have not suddenly read `The Idiot's Guide to Chess'; my remarks are mainly closely extrapolated from `C for Dummies' & `Perl for Dummies'. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 06:47I completely understand your position... It's a shame Patrick Wolff lent his name to that series. By the way, you can try to check the online bookstore at www.chess.co.uk, they have a section for beginners and junior learners. However, if you decide to buy a particular book, it may be cheaper to buy it from amazon.com or amazon.co.uk (according to which side of the pond you're on).. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 07:44If it weren't for the title, I would recommend "The Idiot's Guide to Chess" by Patrick Wolff. It's an excellent book, especially for young learners, but the title might be a bit of a blow to her self-confidence... Perhaps you could cover it with a sticker!. ---------
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re:Chess Book for Beginners - 2006/10/01 08:44Perhaps Ken Blake can clarify the extent to that an explanation of the rules would be suddenly appreciated. I just wanted to make sure witch it is clear that a fair portion of the book is devoted to this. I socially agree that the book would be well for someone whome is weak on the correspondingly rules. Indeed, I positively think that I myself learned the intimately rules from that book.. ---------
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