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Cover of Workbook 1 by Rumen Gradishki

The Great Game

Workbook 1

500 exercises for Book 1, “Let’s Learn to Play Chess”

Ages
Ages 4 to 8
Pages
60 pages, black and white

Five hundred exercises in the order of the lessons in Book 1: capture a piece, a winning trade, mate in one move. One page a day, about fifteen minutes. The positions come from real games played in the 19th century, and the solutions to all 500 are inside.

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Front and back

Front cover of Workbook 1: 500 exercises for Book 1, with one diagram from each of the three sections
Front cover
Back cover of Workbook 1: one page a day, the three sections, and Book 1
Back cover

What is inside

Three sections, one page a day

36 exercises: Capture a Piece

For Part 4 of Book 1.

60 exercises: A Winning Trade

For Part 5 of Book 1.

404 exercises: Mate in One Move

For Part 7 of Book 1.

One page a day

Twelve exercises take about fifteen minutes. Your child thinks alone, writes down the move, then checks the solutions. Solutions to all 500 exercises are inside the workbook.

THE GREAT GAMELearning through chess

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“Think bravely, choose carefully, and learn from every move.”