Learn Chess the Right Way: Book 1: Must-know Checkmates

It helps my kid improve her chess games

This book introduces each piece and slowly builds the scenarios which you have to solve in one move.Not only do you learn one who checkmates, but you also learn how pins and escape squares coming to play.Chess vision, the ability to see the whole board, is also tested especially along the ranks.

Do the exercises, get better

My 6 y/o picks this up and does the puzzles himself. And now wants to play chess regularly!

I initially posted this review on the Chessable edition 5 months ago.This is a fantastic tactics book for beginners and those under 1000 USCF. It is extremely systematic and the patterns are chosen in a way that often help contextualize each other. Don't assume that beginners are the only ones who can learn from this, I'm over 2000 USCF and missed 14 of the puzzles! The main target audience is beginners but stronger players might want to run through these quickly to fill in the basic tactics which they aren't yet able to autopilot (I recommend using a 10-second timer for that).Highly recommended, 5/5 stars.

Learn Chess the Right Way series is a must to own book series for coaches, parents and students. It is very well written and provides lots of essential materials for beginner and advanced chess players. Highly recommend!

I have Books 1 and 2 and I quickly realized these books are best bought new and not used. They are workbooks meant to be written in. There are many sample chess games presented and you're supposed to write what the best next move would be. I bought a used Book 2 that the seller said was in "Good" condition but once I received it I realized 25 pages had the answers written in pen by the previous owner. At first I thought I'd be OK with that but after all I think I'll just donate it and buy the book again "new" so I don't have to be annoyed by the previous owner's answers. I do like the books but just wanted to point that out.

I bought this Chess book for my autistic grandson that's in a simplified format that he can easy understand using different learning styles

This is an excellent book for beginners. Many puzzles to solve. Not particularly difficult but very good for beginners to get practice on the different checkmates.

Muito bom!

Nice choice of simple problems. Some problems look alike but slight change in position of a single piece changes solution. This helps in developing board vision.

Brilliant chess book. Well laid out and really easy to understand. This book is primarily aimed at children but don't be fooled; it's equally valuable to adults. I suppose I should mention that I am a totally amateur chess player but I do believe this is a good book. I intend to purchase more in the series.

The book has a lot of repetitive puzzles for basic tactical patterns - which is exactly what's required to engrain them in memory. The puzzles are high quality, no errors, there is equal number of puzzles for white and black (important for recognizing opponents tactical opportunities - not only yours), and there is a whole book in the series dedicated to defense motifs. Excellent training material!