Zaninotto: This is how the youngest fight

While the chess world mostly focuses its interest on the grandmasters and world champions of today, the Italian Franco Zaninotto (a FIDE master and experienced chess trainer) focuses his attention on the age group from which the grandmasters and world champions of tomorrow will emerge - namely, that of schoolchildren and young people up to the maximum age of 14.

The most important pedagogical approach is the idea that his book offers an ideal learning incentive, especially when placed in the hands of readers of this age group, because it refutes the argument that may be put forward when working with conventional chess literature - namely: "Of course they are all so good, because they are all old hands!"

And so that not only the very youngest, but also all other age groups can learn a lot, the author has given his foray into the world's highest-ranking championships for girls and boys from U6 to U14 the external form of a condensed textbook in which everything fundamentally worth knowing in the areas of strategy and tactics is discussed using interesting game examples.

And to round things off, almost a hundred practice examples are provided on the topics covered, allowing every reader - young and old - to check their progress.