Sabrina Chevannes - The Batsford Book of Chess for Children
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Chess is experiencing a new wave of popularity in schools, and its educational too. Organisations like Chess in Schools are promoting it as the perfect way to develop analytical thinking skills, foster the competitive instinct and provide a lot of fun along the way. This cute, character-based book, aimed at children aged 7 and up, is a complete guide to chess for those starting out in the game. In straightforward, animated language, Jess and Jamie two rough-and-tumble kids who are obsessed with chess explain everything you need to know, from first sitting down at the board to sneaky tricks to help you beat your opponents. The book explains who the pieces are and how they move (and that were talking about pawns, not prawns), how to reach checkmate (or, in Jesss words, how to kill the king), and the concept of the opening, middlegame and endgame. It also introduces the idea of chess etiquette - and explains why: sometimes no one wins and a game ends in stalemate. Friendlier and more fun than the average childrens chess book, The Batsford Book of Chess for Children should become an essential addition to any childs bookshelf.
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Chess
for
Children
About the Author
Sabrina Chevannes is an outstanding young chess player and teacher. She started playing chess at 8 years old and has won 10 British chess titles. She teaches chess in many schools in the London area, has coached the England junior chess team, and organises chess tournaments such as the National Girls Chess Championships, the English Womens Rapidplay and the Richmond Rapidplay.
Chess
for
Children
Sabrina Chevannes
First published in the United Kingdom in 2013 by
Batsford
10 Southcombe Street
London W14 0RA
An imprint of Anova Books Company Ltd
Copyright Batsford 2013
Text Sabrina Chevannes 2013
The moral rights of the author have been asserted.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.
first eBook publication 2013
ISBN 9781849941341
also available in hardback
ISBN 9781849940696
Illustrations by Fran Brylewska
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Contents
And were going to teach you everything we know about chess!
Jamie: Chess is our favourite game in the world, and we want everyone to learn how to play so they can play with us. So, in this book, well tell you everything we know about chess and, by the time you finish reading, you will be as good at it as us!
Jess: I love chess because its a game that lots of really clever people play. So everyone says Im really clever because Im good at chess.
Jamie: I love chess because I like fighting games. I know its not nice to fight with other people, so I fight over the chessboard!
Jess: Chess helps me to calculate and think properly, so it also helps me with my schoolwork! My memory has got much better since playing chess, and I can work out problems in a much better way now, too!
Jamie: I just like to win! Winning makes me feel good. Since chess is a battle of the minds, if I beat someone at chess, it makes me feel like Im cleverer than them, and thats a good feeling!
Jess: Chess is a battle game between two armies the white and black armies.
They have to fight against each other in order to trap the other armys king and take over their kingdom.
Jamie: Yeah, and the person who does this first gets to shout CHECKMATE and they win the game!
Jess: But we dont shout, though, Jamie, remember? Chess is supposed to be a quiet game.
Jamie: Oh, I keep forgetting that! Shhhhhhhh!
Jess: Chess has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years and still has never been mastered. This is one of the things that makes the game so fantastic!
Jamie: Chess originated in India before 500 AD , then the Persians heard about it and started playing it, too. Chess didnt make its way over to Europe until about the 12th century, and then we started playing competitive chess only in the 1800s.
The chess battlefield is known as the chessboard. Its square in shape and split into little light and dark squares:
Jamie : The chessboard has 64 little squares, to be precise. I know this because there are eight squares along the bottom and eight squares up the sides. 8 x 8 = 64!
Jess: OK smartypants, thats very clever, but did you know that the lines up and down the chessboard have special names? So do the ones that go across the chessboard.
Jamie: Yeah, they are called rows.
Jess: No they are not. You can call them rows, but in chess, we use special names for them. The ones that go up and down the board are called files and are named after letters.
Jamie: Ive heard that word before. When the teachers tell us to line up outside, they ask us to stand in single file!
Jess: Yes, exactly. You see the one highlighted here? This one is called the e-file, because it is all the squares above the letter e on the chessboard.
Jamie: Ah yes, because we have letters and numbers on the sides of our chessboards to help us name the squares.
Jess: Well get to that in a minute, Jamie, but do you know what the rows across the chessboard are called?
Jamie: No! I thought they were just called rows.
Jess: No, they are called ranks and they are named after numbers.
Jamie: So the rank in the diagram is called the 4th rank, because the squares that are highlighted are all on the row with the number 4 by it.
Jess: Exactly nice and easy! Theres another line on the chessboard we often describe. This one goes at an angle and is called a diagonal.
Jamie: And we call this diagonal the a1h8 diagonal because of the squares that it passes through.
Jess: What do you mean a1h8? Why this?
Jamie: They are the names of the squares! Each square has its own name, represented by one letter and one number, which are called the co-ordinates. In this diagram, to work out which square is highlighted, first Id look at the bottom of the board to see which letter the square is above. Then Id follow the row to the side of the board to see which number row it is, and would discover that the co-ordinate of the square is e4.
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