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Everyone's First Chess Workbook

Peter Giannatos

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  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Category: Middlegame
  • Rating: 800-1200
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Review by: jsain

This position occured in the game Bobby Fischer vs Oscar Panno played in Buenos Aires in 1970. It resulted in one of Fischer's most famous mating attacks. It's Fischer to play on move 26. How would you evaluate the position?

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  • whygy67

    Highly recommended as your first chess workbook

  • crossonline

    “Everyone's First Chess Workbook” by Peter Giannatos

    Peter Giannatos has 738 practical exercises that are suitable to teach a beginner fundamental tactics and checkmates. You can tell that he has carefully chosen the exercises to build tactical pattern recognition and board vision. I completely agree that this book lives up to its name as everyone's first chess workbook. The real choice is if you would rather get a physical book or chessable course. Where to go after this book? In my opinion, I would move you on to “Chess Tactics For Students” by John A. Bain. After that 'The Manual of Chess Combinations (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b” which also has the name “Chess Tactics for Beginners” with an elephant and palm tree on the front. After that, you could move onto the tactics program CT-Art 4.0 1200-2400 at the time of this writing.

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