chess

Fifteen-year-old Phebe Knight, a lifelong ballerina who seems to have lost her focus on dance, decides to spend the summer in Switzerland with her father where she meets teenage chess champion Nikolai Kotalev and becomes involved in his obsessive quest to find the perfect teacher.

An introduction to chess, discussing the basics of the game and offering advice on strategy, tactics, and preparing for competition.

Explains the basic rules and theories needed to know to play chess and discusses the set-up of a chess board, the different positions, helpful strategies and tactics, and other related topics.

Ten young chess prodigies, between the ages of ten and nineteen, share their experiences competing in tournaments around the world, and offer advice on how to become a better player.

Presents the mathematics behind the chessboard, including the Knight's Tour Problem and Queens Domination, for the basic chessboard and variations, such as three-dimensional chessboards, tauruses, and cylinders, and contains problems and solutions.

Presents illustrations of two hundred commonly encountered chess problems in a range of difficulty levels, and includes information on how they can be solved.

Traces the history and evolution of chess pieces, discussing how different cultures have transformed the pieces into artistic expressions of their own and profiling chess pieces in the collection of the Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Washington.

Lists every chess move of every game played in world championship competition since 1886.