Basic Checkmates

by Jon Edwards

Overview

All chess players should become familiar with these basic checkmates. This e-book begins with the easy examples, mating with the King and queen against a king but progress through mating with a rook, with two bishop, with a bishop and knight, and even with two knights when your opponent has a remaining pawn. Beginners and even more advanced players will gain confidence in being to complete a game when they are up material, and they will begin to learn how much material is needed to win a game of chess.

Like all Chess is Fun e-books, the profuse use of diagrams will allow you to read through the entire book without the use of a chess board and pieces. Unlike many other inexpensive chess e-books, these are fully annotated in understandable, simple language. The profuse use of diagrams make these among the first chess books that you can read WITHOUT A BOARD at your side.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013847705
Publisher:	Chess is Fun
Publication date:	12/13/2011
Series:	Chess is Fun , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999. His correspondence ICCF rating of 2580 places him in the top 200 correspondence chess players worldwide.

He has written more than a 20 chess books, notably including The Chess Analyst (Thinkers Press, 1999) which chronicles the success in the US championship, Teach Yourself Visually: Chess (Wiley, 2006), a photographically based chess primer, and Sacking the Citadel: The History, Theory, and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice (Russell Enterprises, 2011).

He is also web master of Chess is Fun [www.queensac.com], a popular chess instruction web site that receives more than 100,000 hits a week.

Jon provides chess instruction in the Princeton, NJ area. He has taught chess to more than 1,500 students over 30 years.