Chess Thinking: The Visual Dictionary of over 1000 Moves, Rules, Strategies and Concepts by Bruce Pandolfini

Fireside Chess Library 1995, 317 M8 pages $24.95 For every chess player's library, Bruce Pandolfini has created the ultimate reference - a visual dictionary of over 1000 moves, rules, strategies and concepts from algebraic notation to zugzwang. For the new player needing clarification on a certain position to the expert boning up on more obscure strategies, Chess Thinking covers the ABCs of chess as they've never been covered before. Comprehensive, illustrated with 140 detailed drawings, and written with exceptional clarity, Chess Thinking will be indispensable to any player ready to make a move. Perhaps the most experienced chess teacher and prolific chess author in North America, Bruce Pandolfini is co-founder of the Manhattan Chess Club School and is the director of the New York City Schools program. His most famous student, International Master Joshua Waitzkin, is the subject of the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, in which Ben Kingsley played the part of Pandolfini.