Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19267 in Books
• Published on: 1982-07-01
• Released on: 1982-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 352 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780553263152
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Compared to what is available this is not a very good book
This is a book for the absolute beginner who has not learned any strategy yet. This book covers one thing only, "simple checkmates".

An entire simple checkmate takes up an entire page. The book also avoids any use of chess notation that is important to go on to learn from more advanced books that are needed to progress. It is not as much as this book is so bad. It is that there are books that cover checkmates, tactics and traps that are so much better now available. Tactics and traps are also important for the beginner to know, not just checkmates. If you really want a book just on checkmates alone then look at "Art of Checkmate" or "How to Beat your Dad at Chess". They are examples of two much better books.

Doesn't match up
If you are looking for a good book on "How to Checkmate" get "How to Beat Your Dad at Chess" or even Polgar's massive Puzzels Book. Fischer's book has very little material in it is is dated because of much better books of the same nature. Looking for a good instructional book: if a kid, adult or teacher get "Chess For Juniors". If a classroom teacher consider getting "Teaching Chess in the 21st Century" in addition to "Chess for Juniors".

Title is misleading!
This book has the title that made me think there was covering of all points of chess. But when I got the book Bobby Fischer only sets up positions (and only one per page) where you must find a checkmate that is very, very easy to find. Every page is like this. I should have read the reviews on it so I could have spent the money on a top book that teaches beginners. If you are are reading this (like I should have read the reviews) then do not buy this book unless you want a bunch of easy to solve checkmate positions instead of a book that has real lessons to learn from. I have since gotten "Chess for Juniors" and "How to Beat your Dad at Chess". "Chess for Juniors" gives very good lessons and "How to Beat your Dad" has checkmate positions but tells you much more about them.