How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Gambit Chess) by Murray Chandler
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Book Reviews of How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Gambit Chess)
Book Review: Easy Way to Master Tactics!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book works because the 50 checkmates (actually 47 checkmates and 3 drawing concepts) are so superbly well-chosen.
Some typical examples of the patterns covered are:
Single rook sacrifice on h8
The Bxh6 Sacrifice
The Double Bishop Sacrifice
The Greek Gift Sacrifice
A nice touch is that for many of the themes a little bit of history is also given. For example, Deadly Checkmate 50 is called The Fischer Trap, as in involves the Bxf7+ and Ne6 motif of Fischer-Reshevsky in 1958. We also learn that the great German player Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934) once fell for this trap too.
This educational element helps explain why this book is almost a text book in many schools and clubs - the clarity of the explanations is another reason. The book is fun too. Very highly recommended, even for adults!
Book Review: Easy way to master tactics!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book works because the 50 checkmates (actually 47 checkmates and 3 drawing concepts) are so superbly well-chosen.
Some typical examples of the patterns covered are:
Single rook sacrifice on h8
The Bxh6 Sacrifice
The Double Bishop Sacrifice
The Greek Gift Sacrifice
A nice touch is that for many of the themes a little bit of history is also given. For example, Deadly Checkmate 50 is called The Fischer Trap, as in involves the Bxf7+ and Ne6 motif of Fischer-Reshevsky in 1958. We also learn that the great German player Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934) once fell for this trap too.
This educational element helps explain why this book is almost a text book in many schools and clubs - the clarity of the explanations is another reason. The book is fun too. Very highly recommended, even for adults!
Book Review: A simple but effective method
Summary: 5 Stars
This book works because the 50 checkmates (actually 47 checkmates and 3 drawing concepts) are so superbly well-chosen.
Some typical examples of the patterns covered are:
Single rook sacrifice on h8
The Bxh6 Sacrifice
The Double Bishop Sacrifice
The Greek Gift Sacrifice
A nice touch is that for many of the themes a little bit of history is also given. For example, Deadly Checkmate 50 is called The Fischer Trap, as in involves the Bxf7+ and Ne6 motif of Fischer-Reshevsky in 1958. We also learn that the great German player Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934) once fell for this trap too.
This educational element helps explain why this book is almost a text book in many schools and clubs - the clarity of the explanations is another reason. The book is fun too. Very highly recommended, even for adults!
Book Review: 50 Deadly Checkmates
Summary: 5 Stars
This book works because the 50 checkmates (actually 47 checkmates and 3 drawing concepts) are so superbly well-chosen.
Some typical examples of the patterns covered are:
Single rook sacrifice on h8
The Bxh6 Sacrifice
The Double Bishop Sacrifice
The Greek Gift Sacrifice
A nice touch is that for many of the themes a little bit of history is also given. For example, Deadly Checkmate 50 is called The Fischer Trap, as in involves the Bxf7+ and Ne6 motif of Fischer-Reshevsky in 1958. We also learn that the great German player Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934) once fell for this trap too.
This educational element helps explain why this book is almost a text book in many schools and clubs - the clarity of the explanations is another reason. The book is fun too. Very highly recommended, even for adults!
Book Review: A simple but effective method
Summary: 5 Stars
This book works because the 50 checkmates (actually 47 checkmates and 3 drawing concepts) are so superbly well-chosen.
Some typical examples of the patterns covered are:
Single rook sacrifice on h8
The Bxh6 Sacrifice
The Double Bishop Sacrifice
The Greek Gift Sacrifice
A nice touch is that for many of the themes a little bit of history is also given. For example, Deadly Checkmate 50 is called The Fischer Trap, as in involves the Bxf7+ and Ne6 motif of Fischer-Reshevsky in 1958. We also learn that the great German player Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934) once fell for this trap too.
This educational element helps explain why this book is almost a text book in many schools and clubs - the clarity of the explanations is another reason. The book is fun too. Very highly recommended, even for adults!