Chess for Beginners: A Picture Guide Including Photographs and Diagrams for Self-Teaching

Learn how to play chess like a pro. In this book, Al Horowitz, Chess Editor of the  New York Times  and former U.S. Open Champion, applies some of the ideas and convictions acquired from thirty-five years of playing, teaching and analyzing the royal game. He emphasizes the tactical aspects of the how to recognize the big chance and hit hard when it occurs. He also stresses the ideas and methods in opening play, rather than the routine memorizing of variations that takes the joy out of chess for so many beginners.
When you have completed this book, you will be able to play chess with pleasure and some ability.