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Suggest chess book for kids

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Can anyone recommend any good chess books for kids? I'd like to get some for our scholastic chess club. Most of the kids are 9 years and under. The youngest is 6, oldest is 17.

What about How to Beat Your Dad at Chess ? My daughter want that one, she's 9.

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Originally posted by Coletti
Can anyone recommend any good chess books for kids? I'd like to get some for our scholastic chess club. Most of the kids are 9 years and under. The youngest is 6, oldest is 17.

What about How to Beat Your Dad at Chess ? My daughter want that one, she's 9.
Chess books for kids? Sounds like a good swap....
How to beat your dad is good - my 11-year-old had it and my 9-year old uses it now. I'd recommend it.
I also remember 'Chess for Children' - fairly basic, but 'More Chess for Children' was quite good. ( I think the authors were Somebody and Morrison).

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Thanks Redmike! For a socialist, your all right. 🙂

Anyone else have any suggestions??

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Originally posted by Coletti
Thanks Redmike! For a socialist, your all right. 🙂

Anyone else have any suggestions??
You should check out "Competitive Chess for Kids" by my local GM Yasser Seirawan. There are lessons there for kids of any age within the interval you mention.

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There was a book I learnt from called 'Chess for Children'. I'm not sure if it's still in print, but was a lovely hard backed book with easy diagrams and cartoons (when talking about pinning a piece for example, the cartoon had the Queen with a big pin through her dress so she couldn't move). I don't know who published it though unfortunately.

Stephen.

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Thanks all. So far the following have been suggested:

"How to Beat Your Dad at Chess"
"Chess for Children"
"More Chess for Children"
"Competitive Chess for Kids" by GM Yasser Seirawan

[This is a cheezy way of keeping this thread near the top 😉 ]

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Bobby fisher teaches chess.

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I don't know wether you can get it abroad, but I learnt a lot from a book called "Better Chess" that was published by Usborne, and written by a man named David Norwood.