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Basher Games: Chess: We've Got All the Best Moves!
• Which member of the Piece Patrol is the most powerful?
• Can you tell a pin from a fork?
• Who is the greatest chess player of all time?
Basher’s Chess has the answers to these questions and more. Get to know the major players on the chessboard and find out the different moves they make to try and capture King. See how a game of chess unfolds from Opening to Endgame and pick up some top tips and strategies along the way. Meet the world’s greatest chess players―including Abhimanyu Mishra, Magnus Carlsen, and Judit Polgár―and discover how you, too, can become a master of the game!
Perfect for home or school, Basher's highly original books make difficult concepts tangible, understandable, and even lovable. Chatty first-person text and stylish, contemporary character illustrations give a voice, personality, and story to each topic―a brilliant way to communicate science, history, and geography. .
• Can you tell a pin from a fork?
• Who is the greatest chess player of all time?
Basher’s Chess has the answers to these questions and more. Get to know the major players on the chessboard and find out the different moves they make to try and capture King. See how a game of chess unfolds from Opening to Endgame and pick up some top tips and strategies along the way. Meet the world’s greatest chess players―including Abhimanyu Mishra, Magnus Carlsen, and Judit Polgár―and discover how you, too, can become a master of the game!
Perfect for home or school, Basher's highly original books make difficult concepts tangible, understandable, and even lovable. Chatty first-person text and stylish, contemporary character illustrations give a voice, personality, and story to each topic―a brilliant way to communicate science, history, and geography. .
64 pages, Hardcover
Published October 25, 2022
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But first some background: Over the last 20 years, I've written books, magazine and newspaper articles, for online and for television. I get to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, my specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. I've worked on projects with Brian May, Patrick Moore, Marcus de Sautoy and Carol Vorderman and for major international publishers, such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Hachette, Facts on File and BBC Magazines.
I spend my days finding fun ways of communicating all kinds of facts, new and old, to every age group and reading ability. I live in Bristol, England, with my wife and three children. I studied zoology at Bristol University and have had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. I used to be something of a conservationist, which included planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing buffaloes from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken me to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, I can be found mainly in the attic."
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June 24, 2023
My wife found this at our local library and checked it out so I could review it on my chess-related YT channel. It’s cute yet thorough. I think any child beyond “beginner” reading level could get a lot out of it, especially with the help of an adult or older sibling. But it also includes everything an older reader would need to get started playing chess. One downside for me is that every page is written in the first person, which was cute when it was from the pawn’s perspective or the queen’s perspective, but the middle-game talking to me in first person was strange and off-putting.
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