Lev Alburt

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Vo l u m e I
The Rules of Play:
12 Lessons For The Beginning Chessplayer
Level One
of
The Comprehensive Program of Chess Training
by Roman Pelts
and GM Lev Alburt, three-time U.S. Champion
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Copyright 2001, 1996 by Roman Pelts
Publisher: Lev Alburt
4th, revised edition
All rights reserved.
Ebook edition published by Chesswise.com
Originally published by Chess Information and Research Center
P.O. Box 534, Gracie Station, New York, NY 10028
eISBN 1-59062-141-7
Distribution to book trade in North America:
W.W. Norton, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Photographer: Nigel Eddis
Cover: Anna Malova, former Miss Russia, explains knight moves to
Tatiana Eddis.
This book is also available in print as ISBN 1-889323-00-4.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
n Introduction
The chessboard and the starting position. How pawns move
and capture.
Chess notation.
How the Rook and Bishop move and capture. The center.
How the Queen and Knight move and capture.
How the King moves and captures. Check. Checkmate.
En Passant
pawn captures.
Castling.
Relative values of the chess forces.
How games are drawn.
How to record moves.
How to open a chess game.
Tests
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VOLUME I: AN
INTRODUCTION
C
omprehensive Chess Course
is primarily intended to serve as a manual
for those teaching chess in schools and colleges and for parents teaching
chess to their children or, for that matter, to themselves. From California
to New York, this course has been employed successfully in numerous
scholastic programs. Since 1986 and through two editions (plus several
printings), thousands of players have purchased this course for self-study.
And if letters from our readers are any guide, then thousands have used
this course to enter fully the world of chess or to progress from beginner
status to advanced levels.
The success of
Comprehensive Chess Course
has been gratifying to
both of the authors, though we must admit not too surprising. At the risk
of appearing immodest, we were confident that the course would be well-
received because of its unique origins and proven record of success in the
former Soviet Union.
Soviet chess education owed a lot to the famous Moscow 1925
international, during which Russian scientists tested several of the
competitors and published a landmark study,
The Psychology of Chess
Play.
By the late 1920s, chess was being taught to hundreds of thousands
of students in the expectation that it would provide them with valuable
intellectual training. The instructors of that period — as they do today —
conducted chess classes according to an approved program. At the end of
each school year, the teachers out in the field would meet in seminars with
national-level chess officials to discuss curricular weaknesses.
By the early 1960s an unusually effective program had been honed
through the trial and error of decades-long experience. Over a period of
four to five years, attentive students could expect to reach the 2200-level
with a weekly input of a single two-hour lesson, buttressed by four hours
of homework and another two to three hours of practical play. This total of
eight to nine hours a week compares favorably with the amount of time
that many American players spend pushing wood in their clubs and
homes.
Numerous Soviet grandmasters were raised on this course, including
Lev Alburt, one of the authors of this volume. Alburt’s coach in the
former Soviet Union was FM Roman Pelts. When Pelts left the U.S.S.R.
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