Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess

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Summary: The book that gives you the eye of a eagle in chess
Review: This is one of the best teaching method book i had ever read. It's great for starter. This book teaches the common mating postions and combination for you to improve your skill. It show you puzzle for you to solve so that it makes you a better player. Now after reading this book, It makes me feel like kicking somebody's butt in chess!!! So Enjoy the book cause i did.

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Summary: Mainly for beginners, this book has good, but par tactics.
Review: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess is a good book for starters. With precise endings and not so precise openings, this book might need some more diagrams from Fischer's actual games with Spassky, Keres, and others.

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Summary: Meant for beginners
Review: When I originally wrote this book, I intended it to be for the beginning chess player, regardless of age. The longevity of its availability has proven that it indeed can raise the level of initial play, and can train you to have a "chess eye". Enjoy!

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Summary: Somewhat simple book.
Review: This is a straightforward book on the basic rudiments of chess combinations, for the most part. While it is fairly easy to understand, I found most of its combination exercises rather simple. From this point on, I think the student of chess has to go on to a book with more complex combinations, such as Leslie Ault's The Chess Tutor: Elements of Combinations. That is a nasty book. Finish that one and you should see your game improve. Back to the Fischer book, I would recommend it as the first book you should review to start getting better at combinations.

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Summary: If you only get one Chess book, this is the One!
Review: I had played Chess for more than 10 years, and I was decent social player. I had a couple of other chess books, *SO* boring! Most chessbooks are less intresting than watching paint dry. Then I stumbled onto "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" . Wow! He concentrates of teaching the principals of chess in a brief yet vital way. Very short chapters, abundant illistrations, tests in which the reader checks himself so you can measure your own progress! I learned more about chess with this book than I did in more than 10 years of play!!! Sad to say, I had to find new chess partners, because I started winning all my Games. If you only get one Chess book, this is the one!

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Summary: mediocre, however good for beginners
Review: It's basically a mediocre book. Good for beginners and such. It gives the basics of the backrank mate and it's defenses.

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Summary: Excelent for beginners
Review: Easy to read, full of diagrams; reading this book is just like talking to a chess master. You can read this book in no time and get a lot out of it. It is somewhat limited in terms of strategy, so if you are middle-level and up forgetaboutit!

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Summary: An excellent book for any level of play...S. Juachon
Review: I was able to refine my game with this book because it teaches the basics of the backrank game. Fischer's moves are very slick - no wonder why he had the highest chess rating of his time. This book teaches you how to use your rooks, how to size up force, how to play and defend the backrank, and also how to think. He also shows diagrams from actual games. I would also suggest that you get other books that he authored. You can learn from this guy.

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Summary: basic checkmate combinations on backrank
Review: For beginners, teaching backrank mate. However, I got stuck in about 10 puzzles (tricky mates). Fischer's mates in real games are beautiful.

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Summary: An excellent teaching tool!
Review: There isn't much I can add to the other comments above except that this is an excellent way to teach chess to elementary and middle school aged children (especially those that are not particularly good or avid readers). My middle school team won a trophy (4th in the state of Virginia in 1997) based almost solely on instruction from this book and Fred Wilson's little book, 101 Questions on Chess (that book, by the way, is only $1 -- I bought all 24 of my kids a copy and it surely had something to do with that trophy). I asked the parents to buy Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess and the kids that got them ended up as my better players.