Chess Workbooks
3-volume Chess Workbooks
Written by National Master Aleksandr Kitsis, Chess Workbooks designed to
provide guidance for the first 3 years of study chess and cover the lessons
and examples used during chess classes and seminars.
This workbook is a guide to the chess kingdom. It is intended to supplement in-class
instructions. The book rehearses the main ideas of in-class instructions and provides a
number of puzzles which will require you to use patience, creativity and persistence — by
exercising the above qualities you will be rewarded by the joy of discoveries and victories.
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"I used the book to go over the moves of the pieces. I found it
very helpful to have children do the various exercises on how the pieces move. It
reinforces what I taught students and lets me see which of them have not mastered the
moves. I also found the book very helpful for teaching check, checkmate, and castling.
We did not get through the whole book by any means but I am encouraging the students
to continue working through it. I found the exercises very helpful and a couple parents
have commented to me that it really helped them learn the game. The books really
helped in teaching the class." Grace Wilson, Teacher, Byrden Elementary
School, Beachwood, OH
This book could be divided into four parts. Part I includes lessons 1 – 4, 35 and 36 introducing players to chess notation as well as discussing basic thinking patterns (what players need to pay attention to when they select moves). Part II consists of lessons 6 – 9 and addresses the basic rules of developing the pieces. Part III includes lessons 5 and 32 and focuses on endgame strategies, specifically how to win with a rook and king against king, and how to win when a player has only a single pawn. The middlegame is by far the most complex part of the game, and combinations are the soul of the middlegame. Part IV includes lessons 10 – 31, 33 and 34. This part addresses the following combinational themes: Double Attack, Pin, Skewer, Discovered Attack, Back Rank, Overloading and Trapping.
This book touches upon all aspects of the game: opening, middle-game, and endgame. However, the main focus of this book is on combinations. In the pages of this book you will find over 900 positions [almost twice as many as in the first edition] classified by their content. Each diagram shows the moment before the decisive move. It is up to you to find the winning line or, in bad positions, to find the path to a draw.
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"I want to complement you on the workbook -3. It's the best one I've seen, and I think I've seen most, if not all, of them. I particularly like the way you cover openings." Dan Cuprill, Chess Coach, (Cincinnati, OH)
This workbook is a guide to the chess kingdom. It is intended to supplement in-class
instructions. The book rehearses the main ideas of in-class instructions and provides a
number of puzzles which will require you to use patience, creativity and persistence — by
exercising the above qualities you will be rewarded by the joy of discoveries and victories.
This book touches upon all aspects of the game: opening, middle-game, and endgame. However, the main focus of this book is on combinations.
