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This book gives kids -- especially scholastic chess players - and adult improvers the tools to start their chess games with confidence -- and have fun with exciting 'weapons' such as the Fried Liver Attack and the Center Fork Trick. These tricks can bring quick wins. But studying them also improves general chess knowledge and helps with understanding concepts such as 'rapid development' and 'the importance of the centre'. The author, the experienced American chess coach Dean Ippolito, has trained thousands of beginners and adult improvers with his Dean of Chess Academy. He knows precisely how beginners should play the opening and what they can expect from their opponents. TRICKS, TRAPS AND TIPS IN THE CHESS OPENING is an ideal first opening manual for ambitious starters who want to take their chess to the next level. Included are over two hundred exercises.

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Dean Ippolito has been considered one of the best coaches in the United States for more than two decades. By the age of 25, he had already coached three of the five youngest national champions in American history. A former prodigy himself, International Master Ippolito understands what is needed to climb the rankings of scholastic chess players. Ippolito has written five well-regarded chess books, including the successful Wojo's Weapons series.

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