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Improve your chess game the fast and easy way

You never get a second chance to make a first impression?especially in the game of chess! Chess Openings For Dummies gives you tips and techniques for analyzing openings and strategies for winning chess games from the very first move you make!

This friendly, helpful guide provides you with easy-to-follow and step-by-step instructions on the top opening chess strategies and gives

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"Provides twenty-five opening strategies for beginner chess players to use, with step-by-step advice, and sample chess scenarios which allow the reader to test his/her new skills."--

"The King's Indian defence is one of the most popular openings at Grandmaster level, leading to tense and dynamic positions which allow both players to play for a win." --

"Describes and illustrates fifty opening chess moves for young players."--

"This book constitututes an attempt to combine a work of reference with a text-book. It therefore contains a compilation of the topical variations required for reference by players of various standards including, we hope, those of high ranking. It also includes explanations of the various continuations, which, it is hoped, will prove useful for players who are merely studying the secrets of opening theory." --