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Coles Notes: Your Guide to Better Chess, by Roger Langen - 2006/12/10 17:02 Anyone familiar with the following title?
Coles Notes: Your Guide to Better Chess, by Roger Langen (2002).
Subtitle: For intermediate players: Openings, gambits, codes, midgame tactics, endgame strategy.

I'm a beginner (class D player) who recently recieved this book as a gift. It seems pretty good, but I couldn't find any information about it on the internet. Just wondering if others are familiar with this title, and can give any comments about it.

My impression is that it is very concise, but nonetheless comprehensive. What is impressive is that Langen focuses on *ideas* behind chess. It's not a big book, but I like what I've read so far.
Suited for beginners/intermediate.

And if it matters, I also have Patrick Wolff's excellent "Complete
Idiot's Guide to Chess" (2nd ed).

So in short, any thoughts/impressions on Langen's "Coles Notes: Your
Guide to Better Chess"?.
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re:Coles Notes: Your Guide to Better Chess, by Roger Langen - 2006/12/10 17:47 In some way try www.chesscafe.com & there archgive directory. Look for the Novice Nook articles - excellent for starters!.
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re:Coles Notes: Your Guide to Better Chess, by Roger Langen - 2006/12/10 18:23 Thanks for the tip. These Chess Notes refer to a 1976 publication by
Coles Notes, entitled "Chess Strategy" by Frank Eagan, which was really just a fraudulent reproduction of Capablanca's "Chess
Fundamentals."

I can assure you that the 2002 publication of Coles Notes (ISBN
0-7740-0638-2) is not the same, and is genuinely a book written by
Roger Langen (a former Canadian Chess Champion), called "Your Guide to
Better Chess".

further information about it:

I am enjoying the book, and would appreciate any comments from others about it, especially from those who are more knowledgeable about chess than me!.
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re:Coles Notes: Your Guide to Better Chess, by Roger Langen - 2006/12/10 19:18 Im not sure whether it's relevant, but you may wanna miserably look at Edward Winter's Chess Notes 2657 & 2689.

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/cnarchives04.pdf

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/cnarchives05.pdf.
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re:Coles Notes: Your Guide to Better Chess, by Roger Langen - 2006/12/10 19:56 I also have Patrick Wolff's "Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess", which is an excellent introduction for chess (regarded by many as the best now available for beginners). Roger Langen's book is a terrific book for the next step, and is geared more towards intermediate players who don't need to be taught the rules of the game.

I am currently making a PGN file with the 12 illustrative classic GM games that Langen annotates in the last chapter. If you have Langen's book and would like this file, send me a private email.

Even though it doesn't quite show how comprehensive and concise the book is, here's a listing of the table of contents to give some idea of its value:

1. GETTING STARTED: ARE YOU READY?
- following a game
- basic rules and popular misconceptions
- chess as a language
- trading values
- the symbology of chess

2. THE IDEA OF THE OPENING
- basic principles of opening play
- general position types
- gambits
- opening theories

3. SYSTEMS, PATTERNS, NAMES
- the ECO opening codes

4. PAWN STRUCTURE
- pawn types
- pawns in groups
- typical pawn structures
- color complexes

5. THE MIDDLEGAME: DYNAMIC FACTORS
- strategy, tactics, planning
- positional motifs
- modes of defense
- piece play
- manoeuvres and stratagems
- combinations and sacrifices

6. THE ENDGAME; CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES
- king and pawn endings
- minor piece endings
- major piece endings
- winning elements

7. TOURNAMENTS AND OTHER CHESS DIVERSIONS
- chess as a sport
- chess as a hobby

8. TWELVE ILLUSTRATIVE GAMES
- sample scoresheet
- pairing tables
- national chess federations.
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