CHESS in 30 DAYS: the Complete Illustrated Beginner's Course Learn Rules, Master Tactics, and Play Your First Confident Game One Month

LEARN CHESS PROPERLY IN THIRTY DAYS. ONE SHORT LESSON AT A TIME.You have probably tried to learn chess before. You watched a few videos, played some games online, lost most of them, and could never quite say what you did wrong.The problem was not you. It was that nobody gave you an order to learn things in.Chess in 30 Days is a complete beginner's course with a finish line. Thirty numbered days, each a single lesson of about forty minutes: read the lesson, work the practice set, play a game. No experience is assumed. Day 1 begins with which way round the board goes.WHAT YOU LEARN, WEEK BY WEEKWeek 1: Every rule of chess, including castling, en passant and promotion - the three rules self-taught players most often get wrong.Week 2: The five tactics that decide beginner games. Forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks and double check, plus the thirty-second habit that stops you hanging pieces.Week 3: Checkmate patterns you can recognise instantly, and an opening for both colours you can play against anything without memorising a single variation.Week 4: What to do when nothing is forced. Making a plan, pawn structure, open files, good and bad pieces, attacking the king and defending your own.Week 5: The endgames that actually occur, a six-step thinking method, and your first tournament game.WHY THIS BOOK IS DIFFERENTMore than 290 full-colour board diagrams. A picture on nearly every page, so you never have to hold a position in your head.Every position computer-verified. Every rule, tactic, checkmate and endgame verdict in this book was checked with chess software before it was printed. The king-and-pawn endings were solved exhaustively, so where this book says a position is won or drawn, it is not an opinion.Practice after every single lesson, with full solutions immediately after - and the reasoning, not just the answer.A Common Mistake box in every lesson, naming the exact error beginners make with that idea and the habit that prevents it.Thirty Decision Checklists that accumulate, day by day, into one complete thinking method you can use in a real game.Annotated master games that use only what you have already been taught.WHO IT IS FORComplete beginners. Adults who learned as children and never learned properly. Parents teaching a child. Anyone who owns a chess set and has never felt confident using it.HOW LONG IT REALLY TAKESAbout forty minutes a day for thirty days. Miss a day and simply pick up where you left off. The days are an order, not a deadline.Start today. In one month you will not just know the rules. You will know what to do.