Learn Chess Quick: How to Play the World's Greatest Board Game, and Win

By Alan Orpin and Brian Byfield

Book Overview

Every day more and more educators are realizing that chess is a great way to help attention-challenged teens develop a capacity for disciplined thinking. "Learn Chess Quick" is designed to grab the interest of those students and release their untapped potentialright from page 1. With a little help from the world s greatest board game and the sidesplitting humor of Gray Jolliffe s cartoons, hard-to-reach youngsters will painlessly discover the pleasures of mental competition, the importance of focusing on a task, and the values of sportsmanship. They ll be having fun even before they ve made their first move "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906388660
• ISBN13: 9781906388669
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Batsford
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher