Openings for Amateurs

Publisher: Mongoose Press, 2014, Pages: 336, Paperback

Learning how to start a game of chess is one of the most daunting tasks facing intermediate adult and young chess players. Award-winning chess teacher and championship scholastic coach Pete Tamburro offers practical guidance for avoiding common pitfalls at the chessboard, as well as effective strategies for meeting troublesome openings and a choice of openings reflecting his focus on ideas over memorization.

Mr. Tamburro hosted the internationally popular Internet Chess Cub lecture series, “Openings for Amateurs,” is a feature writer for Chess Life and Chess Life for Kids, and hosts several interactive Internet sites for chess improvement.