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Volume I
The Rules of Play:
12 Lessons For The Beginning Chessplayer
Level One
of
The Comprehensive Program of Chess Training
by Roman Pelts
and GM Lev Alburt, three-time U.S. Champion
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Copyright 2001, 1996 by Roman Pelts
Publisher: Lev Alburt
4th, revised edition
All rights reserved.
Ebook edition published by Chesswise.com
Originally published by Chess Information and Research Center
P.O. Box 534, Gracie Station, New York, NY 10028
eISBN 1-59062-141-7
Distribution to book trade in North America:
W.W. Norton, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Photographer: Nigel Eddis
Cover: Anna Malova, former Miss Russia, explains knight moves to
Tatiana Eddis.
This book is also available in print as ISBN 1-889323-00-4.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume I: An Introduction
Lesson 1 The chessboard and the starting position. How pawns move
and capture.
Lesson 2 Chess notation.
Lesson 3 How the Rook and Bishop move and capture. The center.
Lesson 4 How the Queen and Knight move and capture.
Lesson 5 How the King moves and captures. Check. Checkmate.
Lesson 6 En Passant pawn captures.
Lesson 7 Castling.
Lesson 8 Relative values of the chess forces.
Lesson 9 How games are drawn.
Lesson 10 How to record moves.
Lesson 11 How to open a chess game.
Lesson 12 Tests
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VOLUME I: AN
INTRODUCTION
Comprehensive Chess Course is primarily intended to serve as a manual
for those teaching chess in schools and colleges and for parents teaching
chess to their children or, for that matter, to themselves. From California
to New York, this course has been employed successfully in numerous
scholastic programs. Since 1986 and through two editions (plus several
printings), thousands of players have purchased this course for self-study.
And if letters from our readers are any guide, then thousands have used
this course to enter fully the world of chess or to progress from beginner
status to advanced levels.
The success o