Your First Move: Chess for Beginners

Raduga Publisher,C.I.S. [Published date: 1987]. Hard cover, 296 pp. Reprint with corrections, 1987, English translation from the revised Russian text, 1987. Contents include: Rules of the Game, the Simplest Endings; Some Basic Concepts, How to start a Game; Short Games and Traps; Middle Game; Endgame; Chess Composition; The Opening; Chess: Past and Present; Solutions to Exercises. Alexey Pavlovich Sokolsky (5 November 1908 ? 27 December 1969) was a Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player of International Master strength in over-the-board chess, a noted correspondence chess player, and an opening theoretician.