Dear Children!

• The game of chess 4
• The chessboard 5
• Important areas of a chessboard 8
• Setting the pieces, initial position 10
• Practice exercise 11
• The king 12
• The pawn 14
• The bishop 16
• The rook 18
• The queen 20
• The knight 22
• Practice exercises 24
• Capturing 26
• Practice exercises 28
• Check! 30
• Checkmate 32
• Practice exercises 34
• Stalemate 36
• Simple mates I. 38
• Simple mates II. 40
• Pawn promotion 42
• A bit of logic 43
• Special moves 44
• Practice exercises 46
• Table of contents 48