The Rules of Chess
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Bruce Pandolfini
Bruce Pandolfini is one of the world’s most sought-after chess teachers and one of the most widely read chess writers working today. His role as analyst for PBS’s coverage of the 1972 match between chess superstars Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky first launched him into the public eye. His coaching of chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin was portrayed in the book and film Searching for Bobby Fischer. He is a regular columnist for Chess Life, the bible of the chess world, and continues to coach young players professionally and consults for CEOs from numerous Fortune 500 companies. Pandolfini also created over 300 hypothetical games as a consultant for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. He lives in New York City.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5A ridiculously bad book. While Pandolfini has a great reputation in this book he should be ashamed. The book does not explain CASTLING, which is one of the core moves in chess. All books of instruction say that a player must try to castle as early in the game as possible, primarily for King safety. Not worth the paper it is printed on. While it does an ok job of explaining some concepts, this omission is damning. Don't buy it.
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The Rules of Chess - Bruce Pandolfini
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Section One: General Rules
1. Chess is a game of skill played by two people on a board of sixty-four squares. The board is the same one used for checkers.
2. The squares of the chessboard are alternately colored light and dark and that helps the players see better.
3. The players, starting at opposite ends of the board, take turns by moving their own armies, one soldier on a turn.
4. Each army or side consists of sixteen soldiers. In common parlance these forces are referred to as the pieces.
Black
White
5. Indeed, a chess set is ordinarily said to have a board and pieces.
Yet chess players prefer to distinguish between pieces and pawns for a variety of practical reasons.
6. So herein unit will be used to mean either an individual piece or pawn.
7. All the forces constitute an element of the game known as material.
8. The lighter color material or side is always called White and the darker one Black, regardless of their actual colors.
9. The players take turns to move. White moves first, then Black, then White, then Black, and so on.
10. Turns are taken by moving or capturing.
11. A move is the transfer of a unit from one square to another.
12. Units are placed in the middle of squares and not on their intersections, as stones are in the game of