How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler
Including the 50 Deadly Checkmates!

This is not just a book for kids – for ‘Dad’ read any opponent who beats you regularly! This book teaches the 50 Deadly Checkmates – basic attacking patterns that occur repeatedly in games between players of all standards. Each mating motif is carefully and simply explained, and several illustrative examples are given.

A final test enables the reader to grade his pattern recognition abilities, and the last chapter explains what to do if your Dad is Garry Kasparov. Fun, instructive – and guaranteed to improve your game.

Murray Chandler’s ‘How to Beat Your Dad at Chess’ is a perfect introduction to tactics for the beginning and developing student, as it works from the simplest and most commonly-occurring patterns towards more complex ones built upon the earlier examples.

Download a pdf file with a sample from the book.

ISBN: 978-1-901983-05-0, Hardcover, 128 pages, Gambit Chess Publications