Chess: Beginners & Intermediate; Openings, Strategies & Endgames

by Hugh Patterson, Flame Tree Studio (Creator), Nigel Davies (Foreword)

Chess is a popular and fascinating game, it’s good for the mind, and satisfying to play with others, in clubs, or alone, in travel, against a computer, or an app. This new book will take you quickly through the movement of the pieces to good opening strategies, middle game techniques, and how to either finish off or defend against your opponent.

Genres: Chess

176 pages, Spiral-bound

Published October 10, 2018

Reviews

[Pastor Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this. I've know how to play chess on a basic level for a long time, but this helped move me up a level by giving some guiding principles in manageable bites.

[Sarah M · Rating 4 out of 5]

Woo baby we LEARNINNNNN

Always wanted to learn chess and after watching Queens Gambit and becoming obsessed with the show, I figured that was my sign to finally learn it and I'm so happy I did!!

Admittedly, the end game strategies were kind of lost on me because I'm still learning how to play the basic openings lmao but it was a great help and I highly recommend to those interesting in learning to play or advancing their basic skill!!

[Harshan Ramadass · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finally a book that is helping this 40 y.o dude while reading this with, and to my 8 y.o kid! I’ve played chess pretty much all my life, started when I was just five. But lack of basic understanding meant that I’ve been a third rate player all my life. I’ve known most concepts laid out in this book through experience and intuition but this book is helping me put the concepts to work through deliberate practice. Great work from the author, has pulled off a chess book sans jargons. This one’s going into our permanent book collection, while I continue to rack up some sweet wins on chess.com app, and getting my daughter on a more solid foundation!

[Noel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Personally, this being a personal review, I find the intermediate portion of the book to still be very novice-like.
The only intermediary portion that I found 'challenging' is remembering the notations. But that's not really my thing. I won't be playing over the phone any time soon. And maybe the definitions of few new key terms. As well as opening names.
My elo rating is anywhere between 1300-1500 depending on the time clock, e.g., type of game. As well as the club you're in. I hear those are the variants in determining someone's elo rating.
I wouldn't recommend this book if you're in that rating field. And to be honest, a lot of us are.
I will look into other books maybe encyclopedias out there. But, I might get lazy and not update my review. So I recommend any one being serious about improving their game to checkout Chess.com. An excellent community and more than the needed resources to learn and improve. A never ending feature upgrades by the owners of the site.

[Adriana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think the subject is really interesting but the majority of the book you can not fully grasp without being proactive and playing chess alongside the suggested moves in the book. I don’t think I got enough out of it without actually going through the motions.

[wrigley · Rating 5 out of 5]

i read 63 pages in one sitting help

[Liam Connolly]

A real check mate

[K.D. Putnam · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good foundational book! I wish it had more about specific openings, though.

[Alina·˚ ༘ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great beginner book.