Someone teaches them the rules, or perhaps they go to a multi-week class at their school or public library. My example is perhaps the example to avoid, the proverbial jumping into the deep end without adequate preparation, but it is also entirely typical of how most Americans learn the game. Why? Why do so few scholastic players continue through the junior ranks? Why do they drop out?
This is in my experience rare – I don’t know whether I should be proud of this or horrified by my masochism – as most young players seem to disappear from competitive chess soon after their arrival. Old Russian men beat me mercilessly at the Merrick Chess Club, and I was hopelessly outclassed in my first rated games.īut I, unlike so many juniors attracted to the game, stuck with it. I thought, after reading Reinfeld and struggling to solving a few puzzles from Pandolfini, that I was ready to take on the world. After that came Bruce Pandolfini’s Chessercizes, Chernev’s Capablanca’s Best Chess Endings, leading, after some twists and turns, towards the avalanche of chess books and magazines that pile up in my basement office. It was a slim volume, providing the rules, basic strategy, and not much else. My first chess book was Fred Reinfeld’s Chess in a Nutshell. And this explains quite a bit about the state of modern American chess.
Nothing is more foreign to American chess, and American chess education, than the Stappenmethode. Price varies, but usually ~$10 per workbook and $17 per teacher’s manual.
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Series of 20+ student workbooks and six manuals for teachers.
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