Chess Openings for Beginners: Essential Strategies Every Player Should Know Paperback – June 28, 2022

As an older adult learning to play chess for the first time, this book helped me get the basics down easily. I sill use it as I learn more and more.

Love this book

Purchased for my Grandson, who is learning to play Chess.Get him started with some basics.We are starting to practice…

This books is very well written for someone returning to the game after 60 plus years and with no training in openings when I was a teen. The author explains the movement of the first 3 - 4 moves and the strategy leading to the moves and comments on the follow-up strategy for both white and black which is helpful. A number of openings for both white and black. Would highly recommend for beginners and players with limited knowledge/experience with openings.

If you are looking a great gift for first time chess player or you have a plan to encourage a person to start his journey in Chess this is what you need. Definitely I recommend this product.

wonderful, concise, easy to read book. beautifully written with sage advice for a novice chess player. All books by this author are great.

Just getting into chess after 40 years of no chess. Good book for a variety of openings and play situations. I'm enjoying it.

Usually, when I see "beginners" in chess titles, I have come to learn that they don't really mean "beginners". Most of the time, they are talking about players in the 1800 rating and below, but not true beginners who just learned chess.This book however, is REALLY for beginners. First of all, this book is small and thin. About 9 x 6 inches and about 120 pages. Then it spends about 1/3 of that explaining how the chess pieces move, explaining various basic chess terminologies, and explaining chess annotations.When it got to the "Chess Openings" part, it even manages to waste a couple of pages explaining the Scholar's mate. Which is probably one of the very first thing every chess players learned. It's the equivalent of "hello world" in programming.The book then continued to go through about two dozens of the most popular chess openings. Explaining the openings (basic history and the first few moves) in about 1 to two pages each.Not a bad book for a true beginner. If you're rated 1000 and higher and you're at the stage you want to learn openings, this is probably not the book you're looking for.