Originally published in France in 2021 by Editions Gallimard, this orange colored book with slick magazine gloss-like colored paper is extremely well laid out using a two column format for most pages. Small in size but weighty due to the thicker glossy paper, this modern illustrated book targets beginners but is also great for chess players of all levels. Kevin Bordi is the creator of Blitzstream and Samy Robin is a FIDE Master. This edition was first published in Great Britain in 2023 by Cassell an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group which is a Hachette UK company.
A very modern professionally typeset and well laid out book published under For Dummies a branded imprint of Wiley. The additional content
provided by Rich Tennant with The 5th Wave cartoons was a great bonus. Large spaced out book, 6 book parts, 25 chapters, 360+ pages, 2010 edition.
A quality gift for any chess player this ring bound medium size hard cover book uses color well.
It features large three dimensional colored diagrams and its spaced out layout makes it easy to read.
Totalling 288 pages, 2014, Second Edition, A QUARTO Book.
Bantam Books - Sports & Hobbies. Bantam edition published in May 1972. 334 pages.
Seen on the cover: "A fun way to learn chess". This full color illustrated book with thicker glossy pages is a great read for all ages. A story about two kids enlisted to save the planet. 2010 edition reprinted in 2015 by Robinson, 186 pages of sheer fun. Robison is an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group a Hachette UK company.
Seen on the cover: "A comprehensive and jargon-free guide to the rules and tactics." A small book with a two column format having a reasonable number of diagrams. Comprising 240 pages, first published in 2005 and this edition in 2021. On review we found the diagrams in this latest edition to be slightly harder to read compared to diagrams in some other books. The book is all black, gray and white no other colors. A highlight is the sixty plus questions in the "Test your chess IQ" section.
British PhD Mathematician and Chess Grandmaster John Nunn has created a wonderfully well written small book with contents that list an introduction and ten chapters in its 192 pages. A Gambit Publications book updated in 2010 and printed in 2021.
A story about Harry Nelson Pillsbury one of the lessor known American Chess Masters who was born in 1872. The book is divided into two parts with the first part the biography written by Soltis and the second part the Games written by Smith. This classic Soltis and Smith mashup works well with a lot of games having diagrams every three moves. In part one there are seven chapters and in part two there are thirty games. Published by Chess Digest, Inc. Small book, 144 pages, 1990 edition.
Most chess enthusiasts would find that this book in The American Batsford Chess Library has way too many moves listed and not many diagrams in between. This International Chess Enterprises (ICE) book published in 1997 is typical of the hard work approach of the author Grandmaster Anatoly Vaisser who is known to be one of the best senior players.