Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps Volumes 1 and 2
by Bruce Pandolfini (1947- )
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very good to fine
- ISBN 10
- 067179499X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671794996
- Seller
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About This Item
2 volumes. xxiv+244 pages with diagrams and index; 255 pages with diagrams and indices. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers Volume 1 later printing, volume 2 first edition. The opening is one o the most important parts o the chess game. Weaken your pawns by mistake, and they're taken. Attack wildly and haphazardly, and your pieces are picked off. Misuse your queen and it's trapped. Carelessly neglect development, and you're mated. You've scarcely begun, and the game is over. Fortunately, Bruce Pandolfini's book offers drills and skills to help players of all levels avoid these perils and pitfalls. Including over 200 traps and zaps, this work present everyday errors in openings and their immediate refutations. With detailed instruction and his usual precise explanation, Pandolfini teaches the defenses necessary to ward of the toughest opponents. Condition: Remainder mark to heal of volume 2. Light edge wear else very good to fine set.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MHC0087
- Title
- Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps Volumes 1 and 2
- Author
- Bruce Pandolfini (1947- )
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good to fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 067179499X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671794996
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989-1993
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
- Size
- Octavo
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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