Chess strategy for children

You have already learned how to play chess, you have studied the tactics and you have known some basic openings and endings. How to follow?

The glue that binds everything together is strategy. Making a good plan, chess players take advantage of the board's strengths and exploit the weaknesses of the opponent.

The experienced player and master Thomas Engqvist shows us how everything depends on logic, something that players of any age can understand. Explain how to identify the right strategy in a wide range of typical situations.

With this guide, you'll soon find good plans on your own, and you'll play chess like a true teacher! At first, the author teaches us the importance of central squares and the basic pawn game, before examining the role of the pieces and how they are affected by the pawn structure.

Then you will see how to coordinate them to launch attacks of different types, and finally you will have the opportunity to test your strategic knowledge with 27 exercises, all with their complete solutions.

Chess strategy for children is a complete course that will help you understand the potential of your pieces and play your games with more determination.

You will no longer feel chess as a series of random events: you will take command of your forces and direct them as the commander-in-chief of an army. Thomas Engqvist is a well-known Swedish international master with more than three decades of experience.

He is a successful coach who has also made notable contributions to chess theory. He is the publisher of schacksnack.se website and teaches chess at a school in Stockholm.