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Checkmate at Chess City Set - Piers Harper


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Checkmate at Chess City Set - Piers Harper

 
Description: ISBN 1844288242 / Genre: Junior Books / Author: Piers Harper / Edition: New edition / Paperback / Book is published 2004-05-03 by Walker ... more
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Newest Review: ... chess set. Before use the chess pieces need to be detached from each other as they come in a single die cut sheet - this is a ... more

 ... bit fiddly for small children. The book itself is cleverly designed to teach the basic chess piece moves by way of solving lots of ingenious mini-puzzles which are encountered throughout the quest. The first page of the book outlines the objective of the quest which is to rescue the black king and queen who have been captured and imprisoned in their own castle, from their white chessmen captors. Each full colour brightly illustrated double page spread depicts an image of an irregularly shaped chessboard mas...more

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Checkmate at Chess City Set
Edition: New edition, Paperback, Walker Books Ltd
Last Update 25.11.2009 05:47
£ 6.94


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Premium Review Checkmate at Chess City Set - Piers Harper: Check this book out mate! (570 words)
by - written on 12/08/09 (Very useful, 68 readings)
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I bought a copy of Checkmate at Chess City for my 6 year old daughter as she recently expressed a desire to learn how to play chess. My husband and son are both good chess players and although they were keen to teach her, neither of them could explain the basics in a fun and encouraging way, so I went online in search of resources that would appeal to a novice. I came across this book purely by accident whilst browsing the bananas.co.uk site whilst browsing for cheap reading material for my children during the school holidays. Priced at just £2 it looked good value for money, particularly as it included a small magnetic set. The 32 page paperback book is just ...  Read the complete review

 

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