Chess for Children, Step by Step: A New, Easy Way to Learn the Game

by William Lombardy

Book Overview

Simple games teach beginning players how to move each chess piece and what each can do in a game. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316530913
• Release Date: September 1977
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 7.8" x 0.9"

Customer Reviews

Firstrate Chess Book for Children

This is by far the best book I've seen to teach children chess. Like most children's books, it covers the moves of the pieces with algebraic notation. However, the guts of the book is giving a child systematic experience with the pieces. It starts with the "Pawns Game." Only the pawns are set on the board and each player plays with the goal of getting one pawn through to the last rank. This is anything but a dumb experience. Games like Knights & pawn game follow until the child is using the whole board.