How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
Book by Murray Chandler
DETAILS
Publisher : Gambit Publications; Illustrated edition (October 1, 1998) Language : English Hardcover : 128 pages ISBN-10 : 1901983056 ISBN-13 : 978-1901983050 Reading age : 8+ years, from customers Grade level : 2 and up Item Weight : 10.6 ounces , 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. Read more
REVIEW
This is not the first book to give a beginning chess player, much less a child, but it is an excellent overview of checkmate patterns. The title is completely misleading and the cover doesn't do the contents of the book any justice. First, if you are looking for a good first book for a true beginner, you might start with Susan Polgar's "Chess Tactics for Champions." In addition to explaining basic tactical motifs, it contains several easier checkmate problems. If the player does well with that, you could try "Chess Tactics for Kids," also by Murray Chandler. If things go well there, this would be a good follow-up. One book is not going to do the trick if you are looking to beat Dad or other, more experienced players, which is why the title of this book is so misleading. In addition to tactics and checkmates, a beginning player needs a good introduction to openings, the middlegame and the endgame. For the beginner, I'd suggest a combination of Polgar's "Chess Tactics for Champions," Irving Chernev's "Logical Chess: Move by Move," and two books by Jeremy Silman -- "Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master", and his great book on the middlegame, "The Amateur's Mind." These books would supply only the foundation for a beginning chess player. After thoroughly going through each of these books, one could be considered an improving chess player, which is the type of player "How to Beat Your Dad at Chess" is really aimed at. I actually like this book more than the excellent "The Art of Checkmate," by Georges Renaud, which is not only written in descriptive notation, but not as well explained or as well-presented as "How to Beat Your Dad at Chess." In fact, Renaud's book would be a good follow-up to this book. For checkmate patterns, I would recommend following these books with "1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate," by Fred Reinfeld (a great book on tactics to go along with it is Reinfeld's "1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations"). The most comprehensive book on checkmates is "Art of Attack in Chess," by Validmir Vukovic, which is practically a dissertation on the subject. One could follow that up with "1000 Checkmate Combinations" by Victor Henkin and the rest -- at least concerning the subject of checkmate --is a matter of repetition and reinforcing pattern recognition. In a vacuum, "How to Beat Your Dad at Chess" is a very good book. That said, one needs to be realistic on what it takes to really improve one's game. Keep in mind that the other books I mentioned on openings/game books, tactics, middlegame and the endgame each needs to be followed up by more complex books on each subject.
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