How To Play Chess
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
For anyone who has ever sat across a chessboard and wondered how grandmasters think, Fred Reinfeld's How to Play Chess is the definitive starting point — a lucid, authoritative guide that transforms a game of staggering complexity into something both approachable and deeply compelling. Reinfeld, a former U.S. Intercollegiate Chess Champion and Joint Editor of the United States Chess Review, instructs readers from the ground up, detailing the movement of each piece, the principles of sound opening play, tactical combinations, and the endgame techniques that separate casual players from confident competitors. Beyond its practical instruction, the work reflects Reinfeld's remarkable gift for clear, unpatronising prose — a quality that made him one of the most prolific and widely read chess authors of the twentieth century. His method doesn't merely present rules; it argues for a deeper understanding of chess as a discipline of logic, foresight, and creative problem-solving. Whether you are picking up a chess piece for the very first time or returning to the game after years away, this volume will leave you asking one irresistible question: just how far could your game really go?
Author: Fred Reinfeld
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Eyre & Spottiswoode
Genre: Reference & language
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
For anyone who has ever sat across a chessboard and wondered how grandmasters think, Fred Reinfeld's How to Play Chess is the definitive starting point — a lucid, authoritative guide that transforms a game of staggering complexity into something both approachable and deeply compelling. Reinfeld, a former U.S. Intercollegiate Chess Champion and Joint Editor of the United States Chess Review, instructs readers from the ground up, detailing the movement of each piece, the principles of sound opening play, tactical combinations, and the endgame techniques that separate casual players from confident competitors. Beyond its practical instruction, the work reflects Reinfeld's remarkable gift for clear, unpatronising prose — a quality that made him one of the most prolific and widely read chess authors of the twentieth century. His method doesn't merely present rules; it argues for a deeper understanding of chess as a discipline of logic, foresight, and creative problem-solving. Whether you are picking up a chess piece for the very first time or returning to the game after years away, this volume will leave you asking one irresistible question: just how far could your game really go?