Complete Chess Course

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Edition: Revised
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1959-10-05
Publisher(s): Doubleday
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Summary

Originally published as eight separate volumes, and now conveniently collected in one edition, The Complete Chess Course offers a summarized review of the basic principles of chess as well as the fine points of the world's most challenging game. For beginners and experts alike. Eight volumes in one! The most comprehensive book on chess ever published! Here is the "classic" in the field -- a perennially popular book that covers both the basic principles as well as the fine points of the world's most challenging game. Written by Fred Reinfeld, a former chess master and author of several best-selling chess books, The Complete Chess Course offers keys to successful play that will give even the most experienced player new confidence in chess strategy and tactics. With over 1,000 diagrams illustrating the principles of the game plus actual games played by the great chess masters, with clear-cut instructions and useful advice on techniques for winning chess, The Complete Chess Course is exciting, informative reading for beginners and experts alike. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Fred Reinfeld wrote over a hundred books on chess

Table of Contents

Introduction
BOOK ONE The Basic Rules of Chess
The Opening Position
3(3)
How the Pieces Move
6(9)
Check and Checkmate
15(5)
Castling
20(4)
Additional Powers of the Pawn
24(3)
How the Moves Are Recorded
27(5)
Relative Values of the Chess Forces
32(1)
How Games Are Drawn
33(6)
BOOK TWO The Nine Bad Moves
Neglecting Development of Your Pieces
39(16)
Exposing Your King to Attack
55(11)
Making Too Many Queen Moves in the Opening
66(12)
Grabbing Pawns Thoughtlessly
78(15)
Weakening Your Castled Position
93(17)
Getting Pinned
110(14)
Failing to Guard Against Captures
124(10)
Underestimating Your Opponent's Threats
134(10)
Losing a Won Game
144(11)
BOOK THREE How to Play the White Pieces
How to Control the Center
155(10)
How to Exploit Your Superior Development
165(11)
How to Exploit Your Superior Mobility
176(13)
How to Exploit Black's Premature Opening Up of the Position
189(10)
How to Exploit Black's Premature Counterattack
199(7)
How to Exploit Black's Weakening Pawn Moves
206(16)
How to Exploit Black's Errors of Judgment
222(12)
Opening Mistakes White Should Avoid
234(7)
BOOK FOUR How to Play the Black Pieces
How to Exploit White's Weaknesses
241(19)
How to Seize the Initiative
260(14)
How to Play Against Gambits
274(17)
How to Defend Against a Powerful Attack
291(22)
How to Seize the Attack
313(8)
Opening Mistakes Black Should Avoid
321(6)
BOOK FIVE How to Win When You're Ahead
Superior Force Should Win!
327(12)
The Power of Pawn Promotion
339(4)
King and Pawn Endings
343(11)
Endgames with a Piece Ahead
354(8)
Endgames with the Exchange Ahead
362(8)
Rook and Pawn Endings
370(12)
Endings with Minor Pieces
382(8)
Sundry Endings
390(7)
How to Simplify into a Won Ending
397(11)
Exceptions: Material Advantage Doesn't Always Win
408(6)
Beware of Overconfidence!
414(7)
BOOK SIX How to Fight Back
Counterattack---How to Meet The Crisis
421(12)
Resourceful Defense---How to Simplify
433(11)
Half a Point Is Better than None
444(11)
The Defense Fumbles
455(10)
How to Fight Back: Practical Examples
465(32)
Point of No Return
497(16)
BOOK SEVEN How to Play the King Pawn Openings
Center Game
513(2)
Danish Gambit
515(2)
Bishop's Opening
517(2)
Vienna Game
519(2)
King's Gambit
521(6)
King's Gambit Declined
527(2)
Falkbeer Counter Gambit
529(2)
Greco Counter Gambit
531(2)
Philidor's Defense
533(2)
Petroff's Defense
535(2)
Scotch Game
537(2)
Ponziani Opening
539(2)
Hungarian Defense
541(2)
Giuoco Piano
543(6)
Evans Gambit
549(2)
Two Knights' Defense
551(4)
Four Knights' Game (Including Three Knights' Game)
555(4)
Ruy Lopez
559(10)
French Defense
569(10)
Sicilian Defense
579(8)
Caro-Kann Defense
587(4)
Alekhine's Defense
591(4)
Center Counter Defense
595(2)
Nimzovich Defense
597(2)
Yugoslav Defense
599(4)
BOOK EIGHT How to Play the Queen Pawn Openings
Queen's Gambit Declined
603(28)
Albin Counter Gambit
631(2)
Queen's Gambit Accepted
633(3)
Miscellaneous Double Queen Pawn Openings
636(4)
Nimzoindian Defense
640(12)
Queen's Indian Defense
652(3)
King's Indian Defense
655(8)
Gruenfeld Defense
663(4)
Blumenfeld Counter Gambit
667(1)
Budapest Defense
668(3)
Benoni Counter Gambit
671(1)
Dutch Defense
672(4)
Reti Opening
676(3)
Catalan System
679(2)
English Opening
681(3)
Bird's Opening
684(3)
Index 687

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