A course in chess tactics: [PDF] [PGN]
Tactical ideas illustrated with short games in the Italian Game
and
related openings.
A First Chess Opening Repertoire: [PDF] [PGN]
Some suggestions to get you through your first chess games.
Tactics in Junior Openings: [PDF] [PGN to follow]
Some common tactical themes based on the lines in the repertoire.
A set of 52 cards with ideas of something else to do if you're
stuck
at chess club.
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"She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency." |
Raymond CHANDLER, The Long Goodbye, Chapter 24, final sentences. |