Principles of the New Chess

by Bruce Pandolfini

Improve your chess game with this simple, superior method founded on basic principles, as presented by America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit .

Drawing on his more than 15,000 hours of teaching experience and the experience of the best of the new generation of teachers around the world, Bruce Pandolfini lays out the fundamentals of the New Chess in a simulated instructional game he developed with top American and Russian students. Giving special attention to the opening and middle game—the phases most important for intermediate players—this master teacher shows you how to make the right moves in any chess situation using flexible and versatile principles, rather than rigid, memorized sequences.

Imaginitive, lucid, ad effective, this new approach provides hours of stimulating instruction and authoritative reference, while also making playing chess more fun.

Genres: Chess, Nonfiction

148 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 1986

About the author

Bruce Pandolfini (born September 17, 1947) is an American chess author, teacher, and coach. A USCF national master, he is generally considered to be America’s most experienced chess teacher. As a coach and trainer, Pandolfini has possibly conducted more chess sessions than anyone in the world. By the summer of 2015 he had given an estimated 25,000 private and group lessons.

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Reviews

[Joshua Reynolds · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful introduction to chess building on principles developed in the USSR – covers opening, midgame, and endgame strategy and tactics by walking the reader step by step through the moves of a game. Concise and easy to read, with plenty of diagrams.

[Luigi Benetton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm spending time playing chess these days, so I'm finally going through my three books on chess. This one is fairly straightforward, putting into words what I've already figured out through hours of play. It's a good primer, best read with a chessboard in front of you.