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Chess Books for Kids - what better way for your child to get started in chess than with a chess book designed especially for kids? ChessCentral has selected the best chess books available for kids at their age of development. Start your child today on a lifetime of chess enjoyment!

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Chess for Tigers

Our Price: $19.95

Chess for Tigers can turn players into Tigers who will make the most of their playing strength, take advantage of their opponent’s weaknesses, steer the game into positions that favor their style of play, and improve their odds of winning against stronger players, and avoid making silly mistakes.

Lasker’s Manual of Chess Book

Our Price: $27.95

Lasker’s Manual of Chess is one of the greatest chess books ever written. The fact that it was first published almost 85 years ago has diminished neither its relevance nor significance in today’s modern chess world.

How to Think in Chess Book

Our Price: $19.95

How to Think in Chess teaches you practical ways of thinking to win. You'll see how to assess your thought processes during play and how to reorganize them in practice. You'll get exercises to increase your thinking skills.

Chess Words of Wisdom Book

Our Price: $24.95

Chess Words of Wisdom quotes, paraphrases and summarizes the teachings of hundreds of experts, masters, IMs, GMs and eve a few scientists, scholars and generals. Essentially, all of the wisdom from thes important sources is in this one book! Chess Words of Wisdom is a digest of hundreds of years of chess knowledge from the greatest chess minds in history.

Power Chess for Kids

Our Price: $16.95

Experienced chess trainer Charles Hertan will show you how to become a very dangerous chess player! You will learn how to weed out silly chess moves and just consider a few important moves. You will learn how to start seeing great chess moves you never thought possible!

Bobby Fischer - Complete Games

Our Price: $19.95

A first hand look at the games of the man recognized as the greatest chess player of all times. Bobby Fischer's genius raised the entire world's consciousness of chess and paved the way for multi-million dollar prize funds.

Endgame Challenge!

Our Price: $17.95

Everything the chess players needs to know about endgames will be found in this book. It contains over 451 examples of all types of endings that the player might encounter.

Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors

Our Price: $9.95

In our modern era in which many chess opening and middlegame positions are guided by sophisticated stratagems, the iron fist of tactical blows is still inevitably the final arbiter of the result.

Chess School 1b

Our Price: $14.95

You should try to solve all the exercises without using a board. During one lesson it is recommended that you try to solve between 6 and 30 positions.

Chess School 1a

his book is intended for young chess players who are taking their very first steps in chess. Chess is a battle of minds in which the player who wins is the one who is more clever, more knowledgeable and more clever.

Learn Chess: A Complete Course

Our Price: $14.95

Learn Chess: A Complete Course provides everything you need to know to get started in chess. The first part is devoted to first principles, explaining the rules and basic strategies, whilst the second develops a thorough understanding of the various winning methods, and includes a systematic study of openings, an introduction to attacking techniques, and a guide to fundamental endgame themes.

Chess for Kids

Our Price: $12.95

Gr. 4-8. International Master Basman puts 20 years of experience teaching children how to play chess into this systematic, succinct, and thorough book. Dedicating each page to a different topic, he guides readers through the rudiments of the game, from explaining the pieces and setting up the board to special moves, essential techniques, and attack and defense strategies that players must know to win. Especially interesting for readers entirely new to the game are anecdotes in the "Check it out" section, which explain the origins of chess and how the game has figured in literature, language, and even history. A solid introduction for novices and good for skilled players wanting to develop their strategies and find out about chess clubs and tournaments.

Discovering Chess Openings

Our Price: $21.95

There's no denying that the opening is one of the most daunting phases of the game for newcomers to chess. There are literally hundreds of different opening lines, many with unusual sounding names, and some of these go up to twenty or so moves of theory. What is a chess player supposed to do: memorise countless variations

Winning Chess Tactics, revised edition

Our Price: $21.95

Learn sure-fire tactics and combinations from one of the worlds top chess players. Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush your opponent and quite possiblychange the course of a game in a single move

10 Ways to Succeed in Chess Series for Kids

10 Ways to Succeed in Chess Series for Kids

Our Price: $29.95

10 Ways to Succeed in Chess Series for Kids Plus DVD - First published in 2001, this 3 Volume chess book set is designed for kids. Each book in the series uses clear language and lots of diagrams to help the reader, with cartoons that brighten the mix.

10 Ways to Succeed in Chess Series for Kids Plus DVD

10 Ways to Succeed in Chess Series for Kids Plus DVD

Our Price: $39.95

10 Ways to Succeed in Chess Series for Kids Plus DVD - First published in 2001, this 3 Volume chess book set is designed for young players. Each book in the series uses clear language and lots of diagrams to help the reader, with cartoons. Plus Susan Polgar: Learning Chess the Easy Way Chess for Absolute Beginners DVD. On this DVD, Susan teaches beginners basic chess knowledge including pieces, points, rules and moves. Susan along with her teaching helpers, Champion and King Harold, set a fun stage for learning chess. Also included is a brief history of chess, a short biography on Susan and "Fun Facts" about chess. Don’t miss added DVD-ROM features if you use this DVD in your computer!

Chess 101 Everything a New Chess Player Needs to Know

Chess 101

Our Price: $7.95

There's more to learning chess than just knowing how to move the pieces. Chess 101, is a great little book that provides a comprehensive overview of everything a new player needs to know.

Back to Basics: Fundamentals in Chess

Our Price: $17.95

With the expert guidance of chess master Branislav Francuski, you will learn how the chess pieces move and capture; the underlying principles of the game; how to spot and carry out simple checkmates; and understand the basic tactical ideas that are so important to playing and winning.