Eric Schiller

The best first or second book on chess openings by a prolific chess master and teacher TAKE YOUR FIRST STEP IN CHESS First Chess Openings teaches you solid, near-foolproof openings that will help you win. You'll learn the most important openings, plus the four goals you should accomplish in the early moves of the game of chess. This base of knowledge will take your overall game to the next level -- and make playing more fun THE EASIEST BEGINNER OPENINGS In this valuable guide, chess master Eric Schiller uses his decades of playing and teaching experience to break down every major chess opening, including the Fried Liver Attack, the French Defense, the Sicilian Defense, and of course, Fool's Mate. This easy-to-read book is filled with large diagrams, informative charts, and clear explanations and definitions. No variations to memorize -- just 160 pages of winning tactics from one of the most renowned teachers in the world. If you've struggled to establish strong positions in your first few moves, the lesons in this book will change that. These essential openings are the tools you need to start a chess game with confidence.

Players of all levels learn how to improve their chess play by cutting down on tactical and strategic mistakes. Using examples from his own games, Eric Schiller illustrates the types of errors typically found at each stage of chess development, from early scholastic games to professional encounters with grandmasters. In each case, Schiller shows how such errors can be overcome while at the same time showing how professional players can fall prey to the same problems as amateurs. Learn from the author's mistakes and you won't suffer the terrible fate that awaits most blunders

Beginning players learn and take the challenge of 201 fun one-move checkmates. This great book for beginning players and children covers the most elemental of all mates--the one move mate Schiller presents different game positions where the reader must find the move that wins the game instantly. Readers learn how to make the final move with all the pieces--knights, bishops, rooks, pawns, queens and even the king. This is a great training tool for players new to the game of chess. Readers are rewarded by finding the checkmating move

This Bobby Fischer book, the only one written for beginning and intermediate players, allows them to climb inside the mind of the greatest player ever, learn his masterful moves and brilliant concepts, and apply them to their own games This is the first book about the great American chess champion Bobby Fischer that is written for beginning and intermediate players--90% of the chess playing audience--that is focused on the lessons one can learn from his brilliant games. Packed with diagrams and easy-to-understand pointers showing what Fischer was thinking and how players can apply these concepts and strategies to their own games, this great learning tool borrows from the wisdom and beauty of Fischer's greatest games and passes it on to new generations.

The quick and easy guide that shows players how to take their game to the next level and become a winner Players of all levels learn how to improve their chess play by cutting down on tactical and strategic mistakes. Using examples from his own games, Schiller illustrates the types of errors typically found at each stage of chess development, from early scholastic games to professional encounters with grandmasters. In each case, Schiller shows how such errors can be overcome while at the same time showing how professional players can fall prey to the same problems as amateurs. Learn from the author's mistakes and you won't suffer the terrible fate that awaits most blunders

A fun and exciting guide for beginners and children to one move mates. This great book for beginning players and children covers the most elemental of all mates-the one move mate Schiller presents different game positions where the reader must find the move that wins the game instantly. Readers learn how to make the final move with all the pieces-knights, bishops, rooks, pawns, queens and even the king. This is a great training tool for players new to the game of chess.

The book discusses in detail the chess opening known as the Rubinstein Attack, and presents analysis and typical games in all the main branches of the opening. This opening system for White can provide the basis for a solid opening strategy that nevertheless provides great opportunities to launch effective attacks against the enemy king. It has been used by many top chessplayers and has been seen in many important tournament encounters. The author presents key middlegame concepts in fully annotated games, so that the reader learns how to carry out the various forms of attack.

This aggressive counterattacking repertoire covers Black opening systems against virtually every opening except for 1.e4 (plus most flank games) based on the exciting and powerful Tarrasch Defense, which helped bring championships to Kasparov and Spassky. Black learns the Classical Tarrasch, Symmetrical Tarrasch, Asymmetrical Tarrasch, Marshall and Tarrasch Gambits, and Tarrasch without Nc3, to achieve early equality or even an outright advantage in the first few moves.

Learn the insights, concepts and moves of the greatest combinations ever by the greatest players of all time. From Alekhine to Morphy, from Fischer to Kasparov, the incredible combinations and brilliant sacrifices of 13 World Champions are collected here in the most insightful combinations book written. Packed with fascinating stratagems, fifty annotated games, and great practical advice for your own play.

Today's greatest young stars, ranging from 10 to 17-years-old—some perhaps to be future world champions—present a fascinating look at the world of chess. Learn from their stories of successes, failures, world travels, and love of the game. They show off their best moves and admit to their most embarrassing blunders. This basic chess primer features diagrams, explanations and winning ideas written for kids by their prodigal peers. Features Jordy Mont-Reynaud (14), who smashed Fischer's record to become the youngest USCF Master, to be eclipsed by Vinay Bhat (13), and then Hikaru Nakamura, a 10-year-old superstar, and others.

This complete repertoire shows White how to reject the classical principles of opening play; instead of placing pawns in the center, White allows Black to build the “ideal” pawn center. As Black tries to hold the center, White prepares to smash the center apart with Black's slightest mistake. Plentiful diagrams and explanations illustrate every concept, with games from the greatest players showing the principles in action. Includes the Reti, English, and Anti-Benoni, openings that lead to lively games with brilliant sacrificial play.

Endorsed by the Chess Education Association (CEA), the official body for scholastic chess in the U. S., this rule book is the essential guide to the professional, scholastic, and internet rules of chess. Written in plain English for practical use, players learn everything they need to know about tournaments, rating systems, etiquette for in-person and online play, and chess notation. Special sections for students and parents answer all the frequently asked questions about competitive play. The use of new digital chess clocks is explained in full, with step-by-step instructions for setting various time controls. Free updates on the Chess City Magazine website insure the book will never be out of date! International Arbiter Eric Schiller, who has officiated at U. S., World and Olympiad Championship matches, and Richard Peterson, Executive Director of CEA, present the rules that apply to every tournament form of chess, from scholastic competitions to World Championship play.

Learn to improve your play by cutting down on tactical and strategic mistakes. Using examples of his own games, Schiller illustrates the types of errors typically found at each stage of chess development, from early scholastic games to professional encounters with Grandmasters. Learn from the author's mistakes and you won't suffer the terrible fate that awaits most blunders!