The Polgar Way to Better Chess Learn Chess the Right Way is a fivevolume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice beginner and intermediate level player using the unique methods of the awardwinning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. It introduces the most important checkmate and materialwinning tactics as well as defensive techniques to the new chess player. Each of the five volumes will consist of 500 puzzles. In Book 1 the focus is on onemove checkmate exercises. In each of the first five chapters a specific piece delivers checkmate in Chapter 1 the queen Chapter 2 the rook and so on. In Chapters 68 checkmates which involve special tactics such as pins discovered attacks etc. are introduced. Chapter 9 has a mixed collection of puzzles without any hint about which piece is to deliver checkmate. Chapter 10 builds on the previous 9 chapters and introduces basic patterns of checkmate in two moves. With over 40 years of experience as a worldclass player and coach international grandmaster Susan Polgar has developed the most effective way to help young players and beginners Learn Chess the Right Way. Let her show you the way to understanding the most common and critical patterns and let her show you the way to becoming a better player. SUSAN POLGAR is a winner of four Womens World Championships and the topranked woman chess player in the United States. She became the 1 woman player in the world at 15 and remained in the top 3 for over 20 years. In 2013 she received the U.S. Coach of the Year Award and the following year she was named the Chess Trainer of the Year by the International Chess Federation FIDE. She thus became the first person in history to be accorded both honors. Under her guidance SPICE chess teams at both Texas Tech University and Webster University have won a combined five consecutive National Division I Collegiate Chess Championships. show more