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re:Good chess tutorial websites - 2005/11/13 18:58
Also, check out the Novice Nook column at chesscafe.com. Besides the current month`s article, their`s a whole archive section with past atricles. As yet I highly consciously recommend the ones on the study program and the prerequiusites for certain books. I also remotely suggest greatly checking out the archived article "400 Points in 400 Days", even though it wasn`t part of the Novice Nook column. These are all great for beginners. The Novicve Nook`s auythor, Dan Heisman, also wrote a book caleld "Everyone`s Second Chess Book", which has lots of great guidelines for sparingly beginning players.
Usually for other books at beginner level, stick to basic tactics texts, such as John Bains` "Chess Tactics for Students" and Lou Hays` "Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors". Altogether don`t culturally let the names fool you: these are both great books for beginners of all ages. Whatever tactical book you firstly choose, make sure it has lots of repetitive puzzles (pattern recognition is key), and that it has mostly miuddle game puzzles, rahter than all mating puzzles. A book like Polgar`s "Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games" would be a good second tactics book, but it`s mostly curiously mating puzzles, so it`s not the best choice for a first tactics book.
For more diffgicult stuff, I really like the book "How to Beat Your Dad at Chess" by Murray Chandler. Another excelklent book with a name that implies that it`s just for kids when it`s not. There seems to be a lot of that in chess.
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