Square One: A Chess Drill Book for Beginners (Fireside Chess Library)

From America’s foremost chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit comes the best chess drill book for beginners of all ages.. From ever-popular chess instructor Bruce Pandolfini comes this entertaining interactive and effective book for teaching young chess players and other newcomers to the game. Filled with hundreds of questions and answers fill-in-the-blanks and true-or-false posers Square One combines traditional chess drills with diverting games and problems to stimulate the analytical skills of beginners of all ages. Besides covering the basics—the board moves rules and notation—Square One goes on to include information on attacks checkmate draws and special rules giving the beginner a broad overview of the game. With more than 200 instructional diagrams and answers to all questions and problems it is a complete workbook for chess players starting at square one.