Pandolfini, Bruce

Presents fifty "ABCs of Chess" columns from "Chess Life" magazine, which teach the basics of the game, covering such aspects as the opening, tactics, position play, minor pieces, rooks, the queen and king, planning and analysis, and the closed game.

World-renowned chess teacher Bruce Pandolfini presents more than two hundred questions about the game of chess that originally appeared in his popular chess column, "The Q&A Way" on ChessCafe.com.

Presents 202 short chess openers, arranged by type and difficulty level, describing each one's central tactic and explaining how the loser in each scenario could have changed his strategy.

An play-by-play analysis of the 1997 rematch played between chess champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's chess program Deep Blue, with diagrams, tips, and explanations of the strategies that were employed.