Winning Chess Strategy For Kids

by Jeff Coakley

Winning Chess Strategy for Kids is a fun and comprehensive chess course written for children 7 to 13 years old. Full of original material and entertaining artwork, it's a perfect guide for learning the royal game. Parents and teachers are sure to like it too. The book begins on square covering the rules, basic mates, and elementary tactics. It then leads the student through a whole range of advanced strategies, including piece development, pawn structure, and attacking the castled king. Opening principles, middlegame plans, and endgames techniques are all explained in clear and simple language. Separate sections throughout the book are devoted to combinations and terminology. Whether kids are learning chess for recreation or are interested in playing competitively, Winning Chess Strategy for Kids will help them understand the game better and enjoy it more.

Genres: Chess, Childrens, Reference, Games

240 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2000

Reviews

[lingg · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was neither useful nor fun.

Concepts were all over the place and puzzles were difficult to understand sometimes (gave up on most of them), not to mention that it tells everything with freaking annotations and it's hard to visualize as a beginner how "3.g4 Nd3+ 4.Kb1 e1+! 5.gxf5 Qxf5+ 6.Ka1 Nxf3" might play out in a game.

[Alaharon123 · Rating 2 out of 5]

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I feel like the people who recommend this book are all people of a high rating skimming it and being impressed that a book for kids is covering such advanced topics. My experience was that there were many typos and mistakes (6th edition from 2012), the difficulty of the content was all over the place, the content was in a very weird order with concepts being consistently introduced with difficult puzzles followed by easier ones rather than vice versa, full games or large segments of games were often included with significantly more moves than needed to explain what it was being used for, but without any guidance on what you're supposed to take from reading master level play without the often unintuitive moves being explained, and it's just overall a mess. Which makes sense since the origin of the book is a whole bunch of short magazine articles collected into a book. Ironically I can see this being good for kids because as a kid I'd have just bashed my head against it and skipped around, but there are better books for everything that is in this one. Best use case is for a coach making copies of specific sections. For me, attempting to work through it was a frustrating experience, and I cannot recommend, even for better players than me (much of the content would be trivial)

[Nate · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was an amazing read! I enjoyed the chess puzzles that appeared everywhere. I recommend this to all young chess fans!

[Saeed Bawazir · Rating 5 out of 5]

كتاب جميل لتعليم أساسيات الشطرنج ودراسة التكتيكات والخطط لكل الأعمار وليس فقط للصغار
مليء بالألغاز والرسومات

[Ignacio Gomez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me ha ayudado a mejorar mi ajedrez😊