Lauren Goodkind, who is a respected chess teacher in the San Francisco bay area, wrote 50 Poison Pieces, a fun puzzle book to help her students and any novice chess player to avoid capturing unprotected pieces that look safe to capture, which are actually poison Taking a poison piece gives your opponent the potential to execute a basic tactic, such as a fork or skewer. You'll see how taking a poison piece can lead to losing your valuable pieces for no good reason. It might even lead to losing the entire game In each of the 50 unique puzzles, you are asked to figure out why capturing an...