Chess 4 Math

Chess 4 Math
Author: Ramón Miguel Lorente Pupo
Publisher: Chess4math.LLC
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2018-02-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780999754801

Chess 4 Math, kindergarten textbook is the beginning of an incredible journey that offers the opportunity to kindergarteners to learn Mathematics through the "Royal Game of Chess." Chess 4 Math provides quality educational activities designed to help students succeed in Mathematics. The author translates the game of Chess into Mathematical lessons correlated to the Common Core State Standards. Chess 4 Math is an original and engaging curriulum that encourages all students to love Math and Chess.

Winning Chess Strategies

Winning Chess Strategies
Author: Yasser Seirawan
Publisher: Everyman Chess
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2005-05-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1781944326

Gain the advantage over your opponent with easy-to-remember strategies from one of the worlds top chess players! Strategy is the ultimate secret weapon for championship players around the world. Drawing on his considerable experience in tournament play, International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan shows you how to apply flexible strategic principles to every part of your game. Using Seirawan's simple and effective planning and analysis techniques, you'll enter each game with confidence and energy, ready to play forcefully and intelligently the way you need to play so you can win every time! Learn to: Knock your opponent off balance with bold opening moves * Formulate an overall game strategy before the middle game * Interpret the motivation behind your opponents every move * Position yourself for a winning endgame * Diagrams throughout the book illustrate game positions, and you'll meet historys greatest chess strategieslearning from them move by move! Whether for reference during practice games or simply for pleasure reading,WINNING CHESS STRATEGIES is an information packed resource you'll turn to again and again

New Math Chess

New Math Chess
Author: Dr. George Ho
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2020-07-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1984506919

New Math Chess is a two-player educational and recreational game played on ten Digit pieces (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) and six Operator pieces (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Power (Square & Cube), and Root (Square Root & Cube Root)). The book focuses on the explanation and applications of four fundamental concepts governing the feasibility and the success of the book: (i) Attachment of Digits to an Operator, (ii) Partial Values of an Operator, (iii) Partial Equality of two Partial Values of an Operator, (iv) Partial Equality of an Operator with its Partial Values. The book provides 20 chess games with solutions for the readers to practice. New Math Chess is flexible and suitable for all students from middle and high schools to universities.

The Improving Chess Thinker

The Improving Chess Thinker
Author: Dan Heisman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780979148248

"The Improving Chess Thinker provides representative thought processes from all classes of chess players, highlights the differences between these levels, and provides insight to help players raise their thinking process to the next level. Full of helpful tips and principles, the Improving Chess Thinker is the result of over 40 years of 'think out loud' chess exercises given by one of the country's top chess instructors, Dan Heisman. The range of subjects addressed includes everything from analysis and evaluation theory to time management skills. The instruction and lessons learned will aid players of all levels, from beginner to expert. The practical advice will be useful not only for players striving to benefit their game, but also coaches looking for new powerful teaching tools."--Publisher's description

Winning Chess Tactics

Winning Chess Tactics
Author: Yasser Seirawan
Publisher: Everyman Chess
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2005-05-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 185744891X

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. Why play in a fog, only hoping that your opponent will blunder when International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan can show you how to put the tactics of the worlds chess legends to work for you. Choose from the double attack, the pin, the skewer, deflection, the cor, x-rays, windmills and many more time-tested tactics.Using classic board situations arranged in chapters by tactical themes, Seirawan teaches you how to: * Plan your entire game from the very first move.Think ahead, step-by-step, anticipating every obstacle your opponent can throw your way * Position yourself for the smashing combination and endgame you've always dreamed of Board positions from actual games played by historys great chess tacticians are provided throughout. Review tests for each topic let you track your improvement. In no time you'll be playing better, with more confidence than you ever thought possible. Errata List

Secrets of Grandmaster Play

Secrets of Grandmaster Play
Author: John Nunn
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1987
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN:

Collection of 24 games played by John Nunn.

Born On A Blue Day

Born On A Blue Day
Author: Daniel Tammet
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2007-01-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 141654819X

A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today—guided by the owner himself. Bestselling author Daniel Tammet (Thinking in Numbers) is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life and able to explain what is happening inside his head. He sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn to speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him the most unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man. Fascinating and inspiring, Born on a Blue Day explores what it’s like to be special and gives us an insight into what makes us all human—our minds.

Play Winning Chess

Play Winning Chess
Author: Yasser Seirawan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9781857443318

'When most people learn to play chess, they usually memorise the movements of the pieces and then spend years pummelling away at each other with little rhyme and even less reason. Though I will show you how each piece leaps around, what it likes to do

Back to Basics: Tactics

Back to Basics: Tactics
Author: Dan Heisman
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2011-02-02
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1936490145

Chess Tactics Can Be Fun! This book is an introduction to the various kinds of basic chess tactics. With instructional material, examples, and problems of all types, the subject of chess tactics is covered comprehensively. There are approximately 500 examples ranging from too easy to very difficult! Tactics are usually why most people find chess fun! This book will greatly enhance your enjoyment learning about - and benefiting from - the recurring patterns of tactics. It is well established that the study of basic tactics is probably the single most important thing any beginner can do to improve at chess. This book will help you do that!

Chess is Child's Play

Chess is Child's Play
Author: Laura Sherman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781936277315

An introduction for parents who wish to teach their young children (ages 2-7) to play chess.