The Chess Handbook: The Pieces, The Rules, and The Winning Strategies
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More and more people have recently discovered chess, not least after the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit". Now you can delve into this fascinating game with The Chess Handbook by Dan Glimne, one of Sweden's foremost authorities on games.
In The Chess Handbook, you will learn everything about the world's most classic game. The book explains the basic rules and covers opening and middlegame tactics and strategy, including traps, forks, pins, gambits, and opposition. Naturally, there is also a detailed section on the important endgame. Furthermore, we get to explore the fascinating history of chess, from 6th-century India to IBM and DeepMind's research laboratories.
The book contains several master games, from "the immortal game" between Anderssen and Kieseritzky in 1851 to the encounter between the world's two best chess programs, AlphaZero and Stockfish 8. The Chess Handbook is also packed with entertaining quotes and delightful supplementary reading, from how to perform a vertical castling to games with prisoners as human pieces!
About the author:
Dan Glimne is one of Sweden's foremost authorities on games and gambling. He has previously written the bestseller The Poker Handbook (1995), the critically acclaimed The World's Greatest Swindlers (2004), The Card Game Handbook (2016), and The Little Card Game Handbook (2006). Dan has also won the Guldtärningen (Golden Dice) award twice and received the Barcelona Culture Prize.
