Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess

Bruce Pandolfini

Jun 2008 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

From America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit comes a comprehensive guide covering all aspects of the game, to improve your technique whether you are a newcomer or a longtime fan.

One of America's best-known chess masters, Bruce Pandolfini has helped millions learn the intricacies of chess through his acclaimed books and workshops. In this exciting volume, he presents a complete overview of the entire game and its culture. Structured as a dialogue between a beginning student and an expert teacher, Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess takes the student step-by-step from fundamentals to advanced, highly strategic play. Combining easy-to-follow diagrams with trenchant and up-to-date analysis, Pandolfini puts a new twist on accepted chess theory, offering a seamless beginning-to-end approach, including:

• a short introductory history of the game
• the moves, rules, and contemporary notation forms
• the basic principles of chess
• how to develop an opening repertoire
• the art of tactical play
• pattern recognition and memory aids
• traps and pitfalls to be avoided
• middlegame play, strategy, and planning
• defense and counterattack
• transitions to the endgame and the endgame itself
• computers and the future of chess
• the best websites for playing chess online

With Pandolfini's expert insight into the history and modern world of chess, as well as several appendices to enhance play and appreciation, Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess makes the perfect gift for players of all ages and will be the benchmark title for chess players for years to come.

Ratings and reviews

This book is for the absolute beginner. If you're already solving tactical puzzles and know what good and bad pieces are, backwards pawns etc. You're already beyond this book. I won't say you can't learn anything from it but as my first chess book after about 2 months of seriously playing I was already past the material found in this book. Just a forewarning the book is still rather good and I would recommend it to the absolute beginner.

Excellent book for a beginner, even for an intermediate player. one can learn so much like chess principles are subject to exceptions, time vs material, playing with initiative, trading for non material reasons, how to increase tactical ability, formulating plans however small they may be & methods of implementation. overall one should start his or her introduction to chess by way of thinking process which indeed pandolfini promotes throughout in this outstanding book.

Please add PR so I could buy and read this book.

About the author

Bruce Pandolfini is one of the world’s most sought-after chess teachers and one of the most widely read chess writers working today. His role as analyst for PBS’s coverage of the 1972 match between chess superstars Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky first launched him into the public eye. His coaching of chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin was portrayed in the book and film Searching for Bobby Fischer. He is a regular columnist for Chess Life, the bible of the chess world, and continues to coach young players professionally and consults for CEOs from numerous Fortune 500 companies. Pandolfini also created over 300 hypothetical games as a consultant for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. He lives in New York City.