Book(s) for teaching kids

any thoughts on good books for beginners ??

Chess For Dummies is good for absolute beginners...and then step up
to Play Winning Chess.

Dave
Captain USA

do you think I would be ready for that one , Dave?

No...Gil...I actually think you should be studying the Dvoretsky series.

I own them and they are great...check 'em out....expensive...but well
worth it.

Dave
Captain USA

I am proud to have a book that Dave does not - when telling him that
I have bought 4 - he countered I have 3 of them - YES People there
are books that Dave does not own 🙂

Mind you if he doesnt own it then it must be a naff book - DOH !

thanks dave. ill look at that. my daughter wants to start playing. i have The Complete chess course by Reinfeld. thought i may
be able to get some others as well..

Okay...that book by reinfeld although large and nice...is not for
beginners of today's standards...it is descriptive notation and actually
badly written.

I have it as well as alot of other ones by Fred...but for a complete
beginner...the ones I suggested will really get her on the right
track...then I will recommend others..staying along the good lines of
development.

And don't listen to Simon...just because he has books i don't doesn't
make them good...kinda like asking the music store I would like a
trumpet..and they say I am right out of those...how bout a shoe horn?
Not the same thing is it?

Sorry Si....had to hop on ya just a tickle for that one.

Dave
Captain USA

thanks for the help will be picking it up tommorrow and hopefully she will really like the game (cant see how she wouldnt) thanks
again. any other advice will always be helpful

No prob Paul...anytime...after she and you go through those...then of
course the classic "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" is good...and
cheap...and then maybe step up to some books by Pandolfini...and
the one by his student and my friend Josh Waixtkin's Attacking Chess
is well written and very instructional.

Dave
Captain USA

no probs there - always up for a laught BUT...

I added
Mind you if he doesnt own it then it must be a naff book - DOH !

I do own an extensive library which I have been building for many
years...in todays standards though...they sell discs for the comp which
some people feel better about.

Me? never!

A book I can hold and feel...I can search through it and find it..or see
something new everytime...when I die I plan to donate the whole
shebang to a nice library around here or something...but I think Beck
will sell them all on Ebay...so be watching for a weird deal of me falling
down the stairs sometime in the future.

Hehehehe just kidding...those books will go to help others to learn
what my passion for life has been all about.

Dave

Very Nice Thought to donate the books ....

Maybe get a stair lift in ... reduce the chance of a banana skin on the
top stair - just a thought

PPS You were right about the fine book - pretty easy to hop through
and gives a good basis of openings - GOOD CALL.