The Usborne complete book of chess
By: Elizabeth Dalby ; designed by Adam Constantine and Ruth Russell ; consultant, Jonathan Rowson
Series: Internet-linked Reference
Publisher: EDC Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tulsa, Ok
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780794524203
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Chess; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Internet-linked complete book of chess; Complete book of chess
Description: Introduces the game of chess, pieces and how they move, and classic strategies and tactics from each stage of the game, and offers a series of related puzzles.
Notes: Originally published: London : Usborne, 2002.

Includes glossary and index.
Table of contents: title: Internet links; title: Playing chess; title: Writing chess down; title: King; title: Queen; title: Rooks; title: Bishops; title: Knights; title: Pawns; title: Values, sarifices and exchanges; title: Piece puzzles; title: Opening; title: Opening sequences; title: Italian-Giuoco Piano; title: Spanish-Rye Lopez; title: Queen's gambit; title: More white openings; title: Caro-Kann defense; title: Sicilian defense; title: French defense; title: King's Indian defense; title: Thinking in the middlegame; title: Board in the middlegame; title: Middlegame puzzles; title: Tactical tricks; title: Tactical trick puzzles; title: Making plans; title: Combination puzzles; title: Defense techniques; title: Sacrifice puzzles; title: Endgame; title: Endgame puzzles; title: Attacking the King; title: King is dead-checkmate; title: Checkmate puzzles; title: Drawn games; title: chess tournaments; title: Drawn game puzzles; title: Story of chess; title: Politics of chess; title: Chess celebrities; title: Champions of the future; title: Chess words; title: Puzzle solutions; title: Index; title: Acknowledgments.