Your First Move: Chess for Beginners
by A. Sokolsky
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.
2016, 312 pages, Hardcover!