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Learn to Win at Chess from World Champion Susan Polgar

Susan Polgar, 4-time World Chess Champion, became a living legend by following the methods taught by her father, Laszlo Polgar, the famous Hungarian chess coach. In A World Champion's Guide to Chess, Susan reveals these masterful tactics and techniques to players of all ages. With coauthor Paul Truong, an 11-time National Champion, she begins with the basics of understanding how the pieces move and leads the reader through checkmate and defense, pawn promotion, and opening and endgame patterns. Accompanying the lessons are personal glimpses into Susan's famous career, including her story of becoming the first female Grandmaster, the highest title in chess.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #131018 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-08
• Released on: 2005-03-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780812936537
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Learn to Win at Chess from World Champion Susan Polgar

Susan Polgar, 4-time World Chess Champion, became a living legend by following the methods taught by her father, Laszlo Polgar, the famous Hungarian chess coach. In A World Champion's Guide to Chess, Susan reveals these masterful tactics and techniques to players of all ages. With coauthor Paul Truong, an 11-time National Champion, she begins with the basics of understanding how the pieces move and leads the reader through checkmate and defense, pawn promotion, and opening and endgame patterns. Accompanying the lessons are personal glimpses into Susan's famous career, including her story of becoming the first female Grandmaster, the highest title in chess.

About the Author
Susan Polgar is the current World Champion in Women's Chess and the top ranked woman chess player in the United States. As the number-one woman chess player in the world at age 15, Susan bridged the gender gap in chess by becoming the first woman to win the US Open Blitz Championship in 2003 and the first woman to ever earn the title of Grandmaster.

Paul Truong is an 11-time National Champion and is the captain and business manager of the 2004 U.S. Women's Olympiad Team.

Customer Reviews

Good Second Book as it isn't really a smiple book to learn from scratch
If you have already finished reading a good introductory beginners book (I like: Learn Chess: A complete Course for example for an adult or teenage reader) and are ready to move on, then Polgar's "A World Champions Guilde to Chess: Step-by-step..." makes for a good book. It gives you some interesting techniques to make you a better player and understand important ideas that will help you play better.

I therefore recommend this book for and adult or teenage level reader that is just past learning the very basics.

This book is more at an adult's level of learning
This book is good. But it was hard for me and my sister to read and learn from ourselves. This is because it is written at a lot more than for someone in 3rd or 5th grade. This is not a bad thing, but the book makes it seem at first as if it is easy, and then it is mixed in how hard it is.

Just some advicing. If you are not at least in high school then get an easyer book to learn how to play chess.

Good if you know some basics - Not a starters book
The problem is clear, the good points are clear! If you are just learning how to play (maybe don't know how the pieces move, or do, but don't understand much else) then you will find this book move along too quickly. Have an understanding of the basics, want an additional primer, then you will want some tips on how to play winning chess. Catchy title, but this book is a big general with some useful information for a just past the beginning stage player. If you are an absolute beginner this isn't the book (consder "Learn Chess", by Alexander and Beach for an adult beginner, "Chess: a complete guide for the Beginner" for an under age 16 beginner). What the title doesn't make clear is it's intended audience - a well advanced beginner!