"David Kane" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any suggestions for books
with as many of the following features as
possible?

1. Aimed at kids or beginners
- every or almost every move annotated
2. Kingside attack, short games
3. Starts with 1. e4 e5
(like 90% of scholastic games)

Something like the first chapter of "Logical Chess" by Irving
Chernev (though it's not entirely Open games)

Dave Kane

Dave, people have made you a few good book suggestions, however not
everybody thinks book-learning by beginners is valuable (Kasparov, eg) and
its better if novices try to figure it out themselves by actually playing
chess. There is some danger in 'producing' a booked-up little genius who has
no practice in thinking for himself over the board. Cordially, Phil Innes