How to Beat Your Dad at Chess
Publisher: Gambit Publications
Published: August 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781901983050
Subjects: Board games; Juvenile literature; End games; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Games/Puzzles; Games & Activities - Board Games; Checkmate (Chess); Chess
Description: This is a chess book for everyone, from eight to eighty, beginner to master. In a clear, easy-to-follow format it explains how the best way to beat a stronger opponent (be it a friend, clubmate – or Dad!) is by cleverly forcing checkmate. Delightful and instructive positions from real games are used to show the 50 Deadly Checkmates that chess masters use to win their games.

For the beginner, simply learning the checkmating ideas and enjoying the examples will help develop the tactical skills needed to carry out attacks, combinations and sacrifices.

For the advanced player, many of these checkmating ideas will come as a revelation, having never been categorized before. Experts agree that pattern-recognition is vital to success in chess, and this book provides a wealth of valuable patterns.

How to Beat Your Dad at Chess makes improving easy and fun, and is full of helpful explanations and practical advice on how to approach chess games with confidence – and success.

Grandmaster Murray Chandler finished second in the World Cadet Championship in 1976, ahead of Garry Kasparov, whom he defeated in their individual game. He remains to this day one of the few players in the world with a 100% score against Kasparov. He was a key member of the England team that won the silver medals in Chess Olympiads three times during the 1980s, and went on to captain the team in 1994. He is a former proprietor and Editor-in-Chief of the British Chess Magazine and the author of several bestselling chess books.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Algebraic Notation; title: How Chess Masters Think; title: The 50 Deadly Checkmating Patterns; label: 1)
title: Anatasia's Mate; label: 2)
title: The Missing Defensive f-pawn; label: 3)
title: The Arabian Mate; label: 4)
title: Philidor's Legacy; label: 5)
title: Semi-Smothered Mate; label: 6)
title: Single Rook Sacrifice on h8; label: 7)
title: Double Rook Sacrifice on h8; label: 8)
title: Damiano's Mate; label: 9)
title: Taimanov's Knight Check; label: 10)
title: The See-Saw; label: 11)
title: The Pertosian Draw; label: 12)
title: The Rook h8+ & Knightxf7+ Trick; label: 13)
title: Blackburne's Mate; label: 14)
title: Boden's Mate; label: 15)
title: Other Queenside Mates; label: 16)
title: The Double Rook Sacrifice; label: 17)
title: The Double Bishop Sacrifice; label: 18)
title: Morphy's Mate; label: 19)
title: Pillsbury's Mate; label: 20)
title: The Crafty Bishop g8; label: 21)
title: The Rook Sacrifice on g7; label: 22)
title: A Knight on f5 (1); label: 23)
title: A Knight on f5 (2); label: 24)
title: Rook Decoy on h7; label: 25)
title: The Queen & Bishop Mate; label: 26)
title: Greco's Mate; label: 27)
title: More Queen g6 Bombshells; label: 28)
title: Korchnoi's Manoeuvre; label: 29)
title: The Bishop xh6 Sacrifice; label: 30)
title: The Queen & Bishop Line-up; label: 31)
title: Removing the f6 Defender; label: 32)
title: The Greek Gift (1); label: 33)
title: The Greek Gift (2); label: 34)
title: The Greek Gift (3); label: 35)
title: The Greek Gift (4); label: 36)
title: Mate on the Long Diagonal; label: 37)
title: Weak Dark Squares; label: 38)
title: Blackburne's Other Mate; label: 39)
title: Lolli's Mates; label: 40)
title: Back-Rank Mates; label: 41)
title: The Refined Back-Rank Mate; label: 42)
title: More Back-Rank Mates; label: 43)
title: Rook Deflections; label: 44)
title: Two Rooks on the Seventh; label: 45)
title: Anderssen's Mate; label: 46)
title: Pawn on the Seventh Rank; label: 47)
title: Legall's Mate; label: 48)
title: The Bishop Sacrifice on f7; label: 49)
title: Knight Sacrifices on f7 & e6; label: 50)
title: The Fischer Trap; title: Test Positions; title: Test Solutions; label: And Finally...
title: What to do if Dad is Garry Kasparov; title: For Further Improvement