- Paperback: 424 pages
- Publisher: Hardinge Simpole Publishing (20 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843820900
- ISBN-13: 978-1843820901
- Product Dimensions: 29.7 x 21 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 468,423 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A lifetime's playing experience has gone into the writing of this textbook, which covers the three major phases of the game, with special emphasis on the endgame where the vital points are often brought home. But there is more, such as a list of key reasons why errors are made and a discussion of that grandmaster difference. This comprehensive coaching manual can be used specifically as a teaching aid for juniors, or enjoyed as chess literature by anyone.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
likely best seller by top junior chess trainer,
By A Customer
This review is from: Junior Chess Training: Improve Your Chess (Paperback)
julian simpole the author of this book is well known as the first chess trainer of the two british chess wunderkinder luke mcshane and david howell. under simpoles tutelage mcshane won the world under ten championship. he has now gone on to become a world class grandmaster while still an undergraduate at oxford university.having been trained by simpole david howell, when aged just eight ,defeated the experienced grandmaster dr john nunn in a game in the 1999 london based mind sports olympiad. david is now 13 and has just earned his international master title. simpoles book is packed with the wisdom and hints and strategies that have made champions of his students and which mark him as one of the uk's foremost chess teachers. this book is designed not just for the junior player but also for the teachers of chess themselves who need a syllabus guide to help them create a disciplined course for their students of chess. the whole book abounds with instructive positions, carefully themed , excellent and patient advice and is rounded off with a chess test which helps the reader or the teacher guage just how far the pupils have progressed and absorbed the information. with the uk schools chess challenge now attracting over 60,000 entrants ,thus making it the largest chess competition in the world and with the uk education minister charles clarke expressing his interest in and support for chess, this book could not be more timely.
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This review is from: Junior Chess Training: Improve Your Chess (Paperback)
A lifetime's playing experience has gone into the writing of this textbook, which covers the three major phases of the game, with special emphasis on the endgame where the vital points are often brought home. But there is more, such as a list of key reasons why errors are made and a discussion of that grandmaster difference.
The book is rounded off by a complete chess course and self-improvement exercises designed to transform talented youngsters into the next generation of GMs. It would be suitable for a Russian-style chess academy, and if implemented would make Simpole the English Dvoretsky! The success of his former students GM Luke McShane, who at the age of eight won the U1O World Boys' Championship in 1992, and prodigy David Howell, who at the same age defeated GM John Nunn, is testimony to his training methods. This comprehensive coaching manual can be used specifically as a teaching aid for juniors, or enjoyed as chess literature by anyone. Julian Simpole, Life Vice-President of the Commonwealth Chess Association, has devoted much of his life to organising chess events. These include seven Brighton Internationals, four Watson Farley Williams GM tournaments in London and a GM tournament in Preston. There, Britain's number one Michael Adams scored a crucial norm in his quest to become the UK's youngest grandmaster at that time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
BEST BOOK FOR CHESS JUNIORS I HAVE EVER SEEN,
By A Customer
This review is from: Junior Chess Training: Improve Your Chess (Paperback)
this book is obviously written by a very experienced teacher who knows how to take a young learner methodically through all the stages of a subject. it is a big book in every respect-both in size and scope and ambition. it teaches the opening ,the middlegame and the endgame of chess and by constantly giving the student exercises it trains the reader for real chess board combat. i am sure that any enthusiastic youngster would improve dramatically after reading this book and if you are a parent or uncle /aunt of a chess mad kid then this book will make an ideal gift.
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