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An Invitation to Chess, A Picture Guide to the Royal Game
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Published by Faber & Faber, 1952, hardcover, illustrated, 220 pages, condition: very good.

An Invitation to Chess is Irving Chernev and Kenneth Harkness guide to beginners chess and the strategies required to progress to intermediate levels and beyond.

An Invitation to Chess is perhaps the most successful chess book ever written, with sales of over 100,000. It is a basic beginners book, starting with the moves of the pieces and rapidly advancing to more complex problems and examples.


I can tell you this by personal experience. As a pure novice to chess and unable to make meaningful insights, this is absolutely the best chess book I have read. And I can say this with just 50% of the book complete. From my childhood, I have tried to play chess. Although, the rules of play are quite simple, I was never really get insights into the game. So through several years of trying again and again, I didn't quite understand what was happening and I have never won a single game of chess till now.

I have tried to read other books, and they don't help. Where this book differs is that it teaches basic tactical rules-of-thumb a beginner should look for and adhere to. Strategy is a very difficult higher-level concept and unless you get the tactical essence of this game, I feel that one cannot intuitively understand or enjoy the game. Maybe there are high-IQ folks over years of playing have garnered this intuition and use this for fun and profit against beginners from even entering the game. This book breaks this mystical barrier. It takes the expert's experience and gives you the essence of what one needs to be doing in order for the game to progress in the right direction and what metrics will ensure maximizing of chances of a win. It shows you the way by which you can have your own a-ha moment.

Just by reading 50% of the book, I won 2 games for the first time in my life, albeit against level 1 of an computer opponent. More excited than winning for me, from move 1, I was aware what was happening, what I could to to progress the game and really enjoy how things unfolded. I am deeply indebted to these authors.

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