From America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit comes a collection of the 50 best columns from the Chess Life magazine monthly feature—the most respected chess column in the world.​ Conscientious in its explanation of every step of play, filled with detailed examples and practical suggestions for better chess playing for students AND teachers, this book sets the standard for all instructional series. Organized into 10 sections, each examining a different element of chess play according to novices, intermediate players, and instructors, you...

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In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase.
Of the three traditional phases of chess play -- the opening, the middle-game and the endgame -- the opening is the phase average players confront most often. Unfortunately, though, many openings are not completed successfully, partly because until now most opening instruction has consisted of tables of tournament level moves that offer no explanations for the reasons behind them....

Second in National Master Bruce Pandolfini's innovative Chessercizes series, More Chessercizes: Checkmate! offers players the ultimate challenge--to find the move or sequence of moves that will finish off the imaginary opponent in a checkmate situation. A unique and challenging puzzle book for players of all levels, More Chessercizes: Check! has 300 original problems.

Pandolfini, who will be the commentator for the 1993 World Chess Championships in Los Angeles this fall, illustrates 200 new and effective moves for the challenging first phase of the game, explaining strategies and principles in a clear and understandable way. 200 line drawings.

Invaluable instruction in the art and science of checkmate for experienced amateur, club, and tournament players--from a premier chess master. Bruce Pandolfini is the creator of the respected Fireside Chess Library and a National Master in U.S. chess competition.

This account of the chess match between world champion Garry Kasparov and the IBM chess program, Deep Blue, offers a game-by-game analysis with explanations of every move. The book also ponders the history and future of artificial intelligence and questions what caused Kasparov's defeat.