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Review: Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to ChessUser Review - Jeremy - GoodreadsGood, broad introduction for beginners (or weak players like me). Fairly comprehensive although detail is necessarily lacking. The dialog format gets a little tedious but at least keeps a narrative ... Read full review Review: Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to ChessUser Review - Tom - GoodreadsI believe this book is unique in the literature of the royal game. While many chess books are dense with symbols and sparse with explanations, Pandolfini has gone in the exact opposite direction. This ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesabcde fgh Diagram able actual advance advantage ahead attack avoid b-file better Black king Black pawn Black's bishop Blacks knight Blacks queen Bobby Fischer bxc3 capture castling kingside center pawns checkmate chess game chessic chessplayers d4 exd4 dark-square bishop defend develop diagonal discovered attack doubled pawns e-pawn endgame enemy king enemy pawn enemy unit exchange extra pawn f g h forces g h Diagram gain Gambit give guard isolated pawns king-knight Lesson look lose material mean middlegame minor piece Nxd4 Okay once opponent opponent's passed pawn pawn majority pawn moves pawn structure play players position possible promotion protected queen-pawn queenside Qxd4 rook rule sacrifice side strategy Student sure tactics take back Teacher tend there's things threat threatening trade usually weaknesses what's White mate White queen White rook White's bishop Wilhelm Steinitz zwischenzug Bibliographic information
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