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    How to Play Chess for Children: A Beginner's Guide for Kids To Learn the Chess Pieces, Board, Rules, & Strategy
    How to Play Chess for Children: A Beginner's Guide for Kids To Learn the Chess Pieces, Board, Rules, & Strategy
    How to Play Chess for Children: A Beginner's Guide for Kids To Learn the Chess Pieces, Board, Rules, & Strategy
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    How to Play Chess for Children: A Beginner's Guide for Kids To Learn the Chess Pieces, Board, Rules, & Strategy

    By Tim Ander

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    How to Play Chess for Beginners – for Kids of All Ages!

    When you read How to Play Chess for Children, you’ll discover a wonderful world of challenge and adventure! This easy-to-follow guide provides a complete overview of the game of chess. It’s a perfect introduction to the game.

    Kids can enjoy every step of learning chess:
    Discovering the timeless 8x8 chessboard
    Learning the unique movements of the individual chess pieces
    Mastering the art and timing of the popular “castling” move
    Understanding the ins and outs of pawn moves, attacks, and advancement
    and so much more!

    With How to Play Chess for Children, little ones can easily develop their long-term thinking skills. They’ll learn how to start out smart and strong by learning the best chess openings. Then, they’ll adopt savvy and flexible strategies for the chess midgame. Kids can finish strong by mastering the endgame, in which weak pieces can become very strong, and complete their game with decisive checkmates!

    This book even describes techniques for avoiding a draw (tie) game when kids are winning a game – and trying for a draw when their opponent has the upper hand. This practical strategy teaches maturity, adaptation, and smart success for children of all ages!

    Don’t miss this opportunity to get kids involved in this classic and inspiring game.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCRB Publishing
    Release dateNov 1, 2017
    ISBN9781641868310
    How to Play Chess for Children: A Beginner's Guide for Kids To Learn the Chess Pieces, Board, Rules, & Strategy

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      How to Play Chess for Children - Tim Ander

      HOW TO PLAY CHESS FOR CHILDREN

      A Beginner’s Guide for Kids To Learn the Chess Pieces, Board, Rules, & Strategy

      Tim Ander

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      Thank you for reading. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2017 by Tim Ander

      Interior design by Pronoun

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      ISBN: 9781641868310

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Game Overview and Introduction to the Game

      The Chess Board and Pieces

      Learning to Castle and Pawn Moves

      Don’t you feel like you got a lot for one move?!

      How to begin the game of Chess

      Mid-Game Strategies

      Pin

      Skewer

      Fork

      How to Checkmate

      Checkmate with a Queen

      Checkmate with a Queen and Rook or Two Rooks

      Back Row Mate

      The Smothered Mate

      How Chess Games are Drawn

      Conclusion

      How to Play Chess for Children:

      A Beginner’s Guide for Kids To Learn the Chess Pieces, Board, Rules, & Strategy

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Game Overview and Introduction to the Game

      Chapter 2: The Chess Board and Pieces

      Chapter 3: Learning to Castle and Pawn Moves

      Chapter 4: How to begin the game of Chess

      Chapter 5: Mid-Game Strategies

      Chapter 6: How to Checkmate

      Chapter 7: How Chess Games are Drawn

      Conclusion

      Chapter 1

      GAME OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION TO THE GAME

      SO, YOU WANT TO LEARN how to play chess? Good for you! Chess is a fun and interesting game that you can enjoy for your whole life. Chess is also a very old game that people have played all over the world for almost 2,000 years!

      To use this guide, it would help to have a chessboard in front of you. It doesn’t have to be fancy, but it should have all of the pieces, which we’ll talk about later. It can either be a physical board or on the computer, but it will

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