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Summary: Excellent Book For the Beginner and Novice Player
Review: This book by former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer is an excellent beginner book for either an adult or child. This was my first chess book, and it taught me many mating themes I remember to this date, some thirty years later.The book is in an easy to read format using the psychology of programming learning. The student studies a chess diagram, reads the text and decides on an answer to the question posed. The answer and explanation are on the next page. No chessboard or table is required, just the book. Unlike many chess books which are dull and dry, this book makes learning chess exciting and fun. I highly recommended this book to parents wanting to get their children interested in chess, for adults wishing to learn the game for the first time, or to re-learn the game they played when younger. The book is as timely today as it was in 1965. The problems increase in difficulty as the book progresses, and by the end of the book some of the problems are slightly difficult, but by applying the information learned previously in the book, the problems can all be solved. After reading the book you will want to keep it to read again, time after time.
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Summary: Not good instruction
Review: My parents bought this book for me. It doesn't have lessons and it doesn't explain anything - just problems with checkmates. I could have given it away to one of my friends but felt that it would have just bored them and not made chess interesting.
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Summary: Written for a baby
Review: I got this book for my birthday two years ago, then got more chess books. I got bored with it when I got the Chess For Juniors book which actualy taught me important things - checkmate is the end of things and you need to know all parts of the game - this book teaches checkmates. A book with this title makes you think it teaches you all about chess. My parents thought this book would be best because it was by a player they heard of. I recommend Chess For Juniors as your first book, not this one.
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Summary: A waist of money
Review: If I had seen this book before ordering it I would have never bought it. It is a simple workbook of checkmate problems that didn't require someone of Bobby Fischer's ability to "compile". No real sill or teaching ability was required to "compile" these problems to work on.
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Summary: Don't fall for the trap - a real Bobby Fischer Turkey
Review: This is the first review I have written for Amazon.com. As a full time professional chess teacher, author of numerous chess books for Random House, and owner of over 2,000 chess books in my personal library I feel compelled to write a review for the first time.
This book only sells because Bobby Fischer's name is on it. Don't fall for this trap. It is one of the worst chess books ever written.
The book has basic checkmating positions with solutions. No real instruction or explanation of what the game is all about.
I agree with the reviewers who state that the book is a "joke", "not even 10 minutes was spent" - though in reality 10 hours is more realistic, and that the book probably was put together by someone else. A terrible consumption of space to cover so little material.
There are many excellent books out there! Take the time to look around some more.
"Bobby Fischer" you were likely the strongest chess player who ever lived, your "My 60 Memorable Games" may well be a classic book, but did you really write this one? If you did it is a BOBBY FISCHER TURKEY!
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Summary: The best beginners chess book out there, period!
Review: This book is hands down the single most important book for the beginning chess player to own. Anyone who has a USCF tournament rating of under 1400 can benefit from the instruction and examples found within. The best part about it is the 'workbook' style that allows the chess student to be interactive while improving their game. The book fosters a sense of accomplishment as you make your way through. It is a far cry from the dry reading that bores most chess students to death, allowing them to actually complete the book where others are tossed aside unfinished.
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Summary: Decent start for a beginning or intermediate player
Review: This is a very good book for beginners but I wouldn't make it your only book, you should also get Chess for Dummies or something similar. This book will present you with many puzzles and some explanation that will improve your ability to see the board and the moves on it, but it is not complete by itself, you'll need another book that will help you bone up on the ideas behind positions and help you to think through tactics and strategy in a more abstract way. Get this book and Chess for Dummies or The Mammoth Book of Chess for a great 1-2 punch for starting to play seriously.
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Summary: A Great Book by a Great Champion
Review: THIS BOOK WILL IMPROVE YOUR GAME! To become a great chess player, you have to know how to checkmate the oponents king. Bobby Fischer REALIZED that and wrote an AMAZING book with one purpose: To teach you to checkmate the king. Forget all this talk on positional play, tactics ( which are good, but not the main goal in chess) Bobby Fischer's Program in this book if done properly will have you discovering all the MATING PATTERNS you have missed all these years. HIGHLY RECOMENDED!
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Summary: For Beginners and Refreshers
Review: I first read this classic in high school, and then again recently after lending it to a friend. This is absolutely a GREAT book for those just starting out. But I skimmed, and then read it through almost in its entirety, and I believe it helped me, an on-again off-again player of medium to sometimes above-average skill. The format of the book is perfect for those who have 5 to 15 minutes at a time(of waiting in line or whatever) to spend brushing up on their basic chess skills. The first 20-40 pages can be skipped for non-neophytes, but the order and manner of presentation are logical, consistent, and the book begins to present more and more complex problem types. The layout is usually a view of a chess board and various pieces in a certain position, followed by a question regarding the next best move. The reader can study as long as he wants, come up with a solution(or not), and turn to the next page for the correct answer. This is ALWAYS followed by a helpful explanation. Too many "beginner to intermediate" chess books assume the reader knows more than he does. You can not help but to improve your game with this book, whether you are an absolute beginner, or just in need of a refresher course. Grandmasters need not read it, but then again, most of them probably read it a long time ago.
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Summary: The best book for beginners ever?
Review: A beginner needs to know how to use a fork, a scewer, a discovered attack, etc. thats what this book teaches, in a very freindly, fun manner.
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