Winning Chess Piece by Piece

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Presents a series of chess puzzles organized around the pieces involved, covering knight, rook, bishop, and queen moves, forks, pins, and sacrifices, and surveying some of the game's grandmasters. Table Of Contents Part One: A game Called Chess The Chess-Playing Codebreaker An Historical Meeting Judith Polgar: Rose of Budapest The First Grandmasters The Battle ground Doing The Piece Mazes Chess Notation Piece Values Part Two: The rook The rook's maze Mating race The rook That Grinds Like a Mill Can you Grind Like a Mill? Part Three: Knight Vs. Bishop The knight's Maze The Bishop's Maze Bishop or Knight? Place The Knight Well Noah's Ark Trap Jananthan Penrose: King of Knights A penrose Knight-Fork Game Part Four: The King The Blindfold King: Philidor The King's Royal Duel King and Pawn Vs. King Part Five: The Queen Presenting Her Majesty The Queen's Maze Queen and Pawns Vs. Queen and Pawns Queen of the Cafeteria Regency King and Queen Vs. King Part Six: The Grandmasters When He Was Eight, Paul Morphy Morphy at Twenty-One The New York Match When He Was Eighteen, Bobby Fischer Give Yourself a Rating Age/Rating Progress: A Chart Net That King! Lost on a Train Part Seven: The End ... and the Beginning USCF's Let's Play Chess: A Review Our Handsome Commander Index