How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Gambit Chess)
by Murray Chandler
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Book Reviews of How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Gambit Chess)
Book Review: This is a great book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Its a great book for beginner and intermediate chess players of all ages. It helps you with recognizing patterns so you can see check mates several moves before you execute them. It says that most beginner players play chess using five percent of their time recognizing a pattern and 95% of the time analyzing the situation and their moves. A master player recognizes patterns 60% of the time he's playing and only analyzes the situation about 40% of the time. Now I play trying to look ahead to see if I have been in the position before. I also try to remember positions I'm in for later use when I've won. This book helps you beat anyone who continuously defeats you. Its easy to read. More visual players should put a chessboard in front of them with the positions shown in the book so they can move the peices according to what it says instead of imagining them in their mind. I recommend this book for kids and adults who want to improve their game.Book Review: This is a great book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Its a great book for beginner and intermediate chess players of all ages. It helps you with recognizing patterns so you can see check mates several moves before you execute them. It says that most beginner players play chess using five percent of their time recognizing a pattern and 95% of the time analyzing the situation and their moves. A master player recognizes patterns 60% of the time he's playing and only analyzes the situation about 40% of the time. Now I play trying to look ahead to see if I have been in the position before. I also try to remember positions I'm in for later use when I've won. This book helps you beat anyone who continuously defeats you. Its easy to read. More visual players should put a chessboard in front of them with the positions shown in the book so they can move the peices according to what it says instead of imagining them in their mind. I recommend this book for kids and adults who want to improve their game.
Book Review: This is a great book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Its a great book for beginner and intermediate chess players of all ages. It helps you with recognizing patterns so you can see check mates several moves before you execute them. It says that most beginner players play chess using five percent of their time recognizing a pattern and 95% of the time analyzing the situation and their moves. A master player recognizes patterns 60% of the time he's playing and only analyzes the situation about 40% of the time. Now I play trying to look ahead to see if I have been in the position before. I also try to remember positions I'm in for later use when I've won. This book helps you beat anyone who continuously defeats you. Its easy to read. More visual players should put a chessboard in front of them with the positions shown in the book so they can move the peices according to what it says instead of imagining them in their mind. I recommend this book for kids and adults who want to improve their game.Book Review: Shows how master-strength players find combinations
Summary: 5 Stars
Before reading this book I had thought that calculation of long variations of chess moves was the only thing that mattered when trying to find a checkmate combination. Possibly many inexperienced players believe the same. It is easy to get frustrated when you are trying to calculate a combination, and you wonder how stronger players are able to do it so easily. This book was an amazing eye-opener for me, showing that many beautiful combinations can found without having to calculate long variations at all. The secrets is pattern recognition - learning to spot familiar clusters of pieces and pawns that indicate a tactical sequence is very likely to work. These patterns occur again and again, and all masters and grandmasters know them. By learning the 50 most common basic patterns, (presented as 50 Deadly Checkmates in the book) I was able to dramatically improve my speed and accuracy at finding combinations. Highly recommended.
Book Review: This book rules!
Summary: 5 Stars
I learnt chess six months ago from my teacher at school, and about two weeks ago I borrowed this book from the school chess club library. I feel I have learnt a lot from it in a short period of time. Now I can understand the basic tactics like pins, forks, skewers, and also I have learnt about pattern recognition.
The idea of pattern recognition was completely new to me. This book teaches how it is easier to find checkmate combinations if you can remember some standard formations of pieces. These formations ocur normally when black or white has castled kingside, and they come up whatever the standard of the players involved.
It is true. Once I had studied these patterns I started to notice they were already occuring in my games. I just hadn't noticed before.
I am glad that I read this book, as I feel it explains how strong players find combinations so quickly, and shows me how I can do so as well. Great book.