Newsletter

Secure Checkout

Shopping Cart

Chess Book	History Book	Travel Book	Science Book	Fiction	Non-Fiction	Biographies
Science Fiction	Cookbook	Nutrition	Sports Book	Children Books	Art Book	Bible

Welcome Guest! Save 22% on most items!

Search:

Book Search

Books By Subject

Gift Certificates

Track My Order

Shipping Info

Contact Us

All Categories

Bookstore Categories

Art & Photography

Biographies & Memoirs

Comics & Graphic Novels

Professional & Technical

Reference

Religion & Spirituality

Romance Fiction

Science

Science Fiction & Fantasy

HomeSchooling

Bible & Home Discipleship

By Grade Level

Products By Brand

Switched On Schoolhouse

Textbooks

Cookbooks

Cook Book / Recipe Book

Drinks & Beverages Book

International Cookbook

Special Diet Cookbook

Special Occasions

Vegetarian Cookbook

Appliance Cookbook

Chess For Beginners: And The Beginnings Of Chess (1891)

Click to Enlarge

Chess For Beginners: And The Beginnings Of Chess (1891)

By Robert Blair Swinton

Our Price	$ 19.46
Retail Value	~~$ 24.95~~
You Save	$ 5.49 (22%)
Item Number	1096503

Buy New Item

Item Description...

Product Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BISHOP. CHAPTER III. ' So have I seen a King at chess, His Rooks and Knights withdrawn, His Queen and Bishops in distress, Shifting about groi.v less and less, With here and there a Pawn'---Dryden. NOW the end and object of a game is to checkmate your opponent's King; and as a means to that end to take as many pieces of his as you can without losing your own. But first you must learn to make the ordinary moves with readiness and certainty. Therefore to your board again. Arrange the pieces---if with somebody opposite to you so much the better---it is of no consequence who has first move.1 1 Between skilled players the one who moves first has a little advantage. Out of 1,000 games, the first mover won 495 against 397; 137 were drawn.---From The Chess-players' Magazine, July, 1865, cited by Selkirk. The analysis, however, may have advanced since then. 16 VALUE OF PIECES. Disregard at first the consequences of the moves, so they be only rightly made. Advance the Pawns. Take pieces and be re-taken. Endeavour to bring men to support each other, and especially Pawns to support pieces. In exchanging, if you can manage to take a piece for a Pawn, or a piece of higher value for one of a lower, you have an advantage --- have gained the exchange, as the term is. Recollect that the Queen is much the most valuable piece on the board. The Castle comes next; while Bishops and Knights are about equal--- each being estimated at three times the value of a Pawn.1 This is their intrinsic value. In a game it will depend very much upon position at the time. After moving the pieces about at one or two sittings, playing a game of takings and re-takings, or having a sham-fight, you may try to begin to give Check and Checkmate. The King is said to be checked when he is threatened by on...

Item Specifications...

Pages 208
Dimensions: Length: 9.02" Width: 5.98" Height: 0.43"
Weight: 0.69 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Sep 24, 2009
ISBN 1120174813
EAN 9781120174819

Availability 100 units.
Availability accurate as of Feb 07, 2012 03:57.
Usually ships within one to two business days from La Vergne, TN.
Orders shipping to an address other than a confirmed Credit Card / Paypal Billing address may incur and additional processing delay.

Product Categories

1	Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > General > Classics [48700 similar products]
2	Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > General > Literary [246863 similar products]

Reviews - What do our customers think?

Be the first to write a review about Chess For Beginners: And The Beginnings Of Chess (1891)

Games

Chess Sets

Video Games

Spanish Dictionary Spanish Translation

Religión y espiritualidad

History Book

Science Book

Creation Science Book

Earth Science Book

Elementary Science Book

Physical Science Book

Physics Book

Science Book

Supplimental Science Book

Math for Kids

Supplemental Math Book

Dictionary Shop

Australian Dictionary

Hindi Dictionary

Hawaiian Dictionary

Mandarin Dictionary

Indonesian Dictionary

Portuguese Dictionary

Translation Dictionary

English to Spanish Translation Dictionary

Hebrew to English Translation Dictionary

Japanese to English Translation Dictionary

Crossword Dictionary

Scrabble Dictionary


	www.FamilyWorldBooks.com Customer Service \| Track My Orders \| Returns \| Shipping \| Gift Certificates \| Sitemap \| E-Mail Subscriptions Order weekdays 8 am thru 5 pm PST by phone: 1-800-391-4502 (closed Sundays & holidays) Press CTRL+D to bookmark this site! Terms Of Use \| Privacy Policy