Books like Chess for Dummies by James Eade

Chess master Bobby Fischer shares his techniques and strategies in this teaching guide.

Explore, analyze, and master the basics of chess openings with easy‑to‑follow instructions and illustrative examples, helping both beginners and seasoned players unlock winning strategies from the first move.

A tale of deception, magic, and the rise of machines in the 18th and 19th centuries, featuring the historical figure of a chess-playing automaton and its mysterious disappearance from the world of wonderment to the United States.

Ilya Maizelis’s masterpiece is the definitive introduction to the game of chess. It has inspired generations of Russians to take up the game, including arguably the two greatest players of all time, the 12th and 13th World Champions. In the original Russian, this landmark work is simply called “Chess” – no other explanation was considered necessary. The Soviet Chess Primer is a modern English translation of Maizelis’s witty introduction to the royal game. This new edition of a timeless classic includes an original foreword from the 2nd World Champion, Emanuel Lasker, as well as an introduction from the most celebrated chess trainer of modern times, Mark Dvoretsky.

At Brooklyn’s Edward R. Murrow High School, an elite chess team rivals the nation’s top schools, showcasing diverse talents and ambitious dreams in competitive tournaments.

The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players.Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to games of high chance (Newmarket) to trick-taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon), David Parlett, seasoned specialist in card games, takes us masterfully through the countless games to choose from.Not content to merely show us games with the conventional fifty-two card pack, Parlett covers many games played with other types of cards - are you brave enough to play with Tarot? With a 'working description' of each game, with the rules, variations and origins of each, as well as an appendix of games invented by the author himself, The Penguin Book of Card Games will delight, entertain and inform both the novice and the seasoned player.