Description

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Both challenging and fun, these great one- and two-move checkmates are perfect for children and beginning players.

This great book for beginning players and even children presents easy one and two move checkmates that are not only challenging and lots of fun but great training tools. Set up for quick learning, Grandmaster Evans presents 100 basics mating situations in large-sized, easy-to-understand diagrams—no chess notation is used at all! The reader is asked to solve the mate, and then shown how to solve the problem using plain words.

About the Author

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Grandmaster Larry Evans was a 5-time USA champion, author of 25 books, and the “dean” of American chess. His national syndicated column, Evans on Chess, appeared continuously for more than 40 years. He coached Bobby Fischer during his world championship run and was generally considered to be the most authoritative, astute and witty observer of the international chess scene.