{ "item_title" : "40 Chess Principles", "item_author" : [" Nathaniel Haselton "], "item_description" : "Strong players are not guessing. Most of the time they are following a short list of rules of thumb, the same ones that have been winning games for three hundred years. This book gives you forty of them, one at a time. Every principle is laid out the same way. First the idea, explained in plain English with the reasoning behind it. Then a diagram that shows it on a real board, a short walk through what you are looking at, and a note on when the principle should be broken. That last part matters. Principles are defaults. They are what you play when you have no better idea, and a concrete reason always outranks them. Inside you will find: - The 35 classic principles, from the first move to the endgame: control the center, develop quickly, castle early, rooks on open files, the seventh rank, passed pawns, when to trade pieces and when to trade pawns - 5 more that most beginner books leave out: using a space advantage, attacking where your pawns point, counting pieces in the quadrant where the fight is, reading imbalances, and spending a temporary advantage before it expires - 41 diagrams, every position checked with a modern chess engine - A when to break it note for every single principle - A short guide to reading chess notation, so no experience with move notation is needed - A checklist of all forty to mark off as you use each one in your own games The book is organized in five parts: The Opening, Pieces and Pawns, Middlegame and Endgame, Space and Imbalances, and How to Think. You do not have to read it in order. Open it anywhere, read one principle, and try to use that one idea in your next few games. Written for beginners and improving club players who know how the pieces move and want to understand why good moves are good. A ChessTerra book.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/020/9798160200811_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.99", "online_price" : "12.99", "our_price" : "12.99", "club_price" : "12.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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