Board Games

How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Gambit chess)

This is not just a book for kids - for 'Dad' read any opponent who beats you regularly! This book teaches the 50 Deadly Checkmates - basic attacking patterns that occur repeatedly in games between players of all standards.

Each mating motif is carefully and simply explained, and several illustrative examples are given. A final test enables the reader to grade his pattern recognition abilities, and the last chapter explains what to do if your Dad is Garry Kasparov.

Fun, instructive - and guaranteed to improve your game.

Victorian Doll House

The Three-Dimensional Victorian Doll House is a beautifully illustrated carousel doll house with two stories and eight rooms. When you tie back the ribbons, the house stands on its own, revealing great decorative details and authentic-looking-pop-up period furniture - and press-out play dolls and accessories!

Chess for Kids

Making chess accessible to kids. International Master Michael Basman invites you into the challenging and exciting world of chess. His simple and accessible text presents the beginner with the rules, skills, and techniques of the game. Every aspect is illustrated with clear step-by-step photography, from setting up the board and basic moves, to more advanced tactics and strategy. A must for any budding Grandmaster!

Kids' Book of Chess and Chess Set

An acclaimed introduction to the world's most enduring game. Fantasy art illustrations by Kimberly Buclken Root capture the energy and excitement of chess's origins--the medieval battlefield--while a direct, lively text explains the game and its pieces in light of history. Each chess piece and its movements are explained in connection with the medieval world that influenced its evolution. Plus the book comes along with a custom-designed chess board, a storage box, and a full set of chess pieces.

Readers are led through the fundamentals of beginning, middle and endgame, and are shown winning strategies for offense and defense. An ideal game for encouraging logical thought and building confidence in children, chess is being taught to young children the world over. THE KIDS' BOOK OF CHESS AND CHESS SET teaches children a game they can enjoy playing with acquired skill and real brain power.

Chess for Juniors: A Complete Guide for the Beginner (Chess)

Robert Snyder, national chess master and noted teacher, introduces this timeless game to the young beginner. Snyder teaches the basic principles and then builds on students' knowledge, giving clear instructions on how to choose and employ opening, middle, and endgame strategies to win. In twenty graduated lessons, with over 275 diagrams, Chess for Juniors covers:

-- Basic Rules

-- Check, Checkmate, and Castling

-- Opening Systems, including the Ruy Lopez, the Sicilian Defense, the Nimzo-Indian, the Queen's Indian Defense.

-- Basic Endgame Strategy

-- Tactics such as the Hanging Piece, the Fork, and the Pin

-- And more.

Robert M. Snyder's students have included the 1989 and 1990 national elementary and junior high school champions. He is the founder of the Chess for Juniors chess club in Garden Grove, California, the country's largest club for young people, and his school seminars have been attended by a total of over 50,000 students.

Starting Chess (First Skills)

This volume aims to tell a young player with no experience everything they need to know about chess, from how to set out the pieces to special moves and tactics. It contains simple diagrams intended to make examples and puzzles easy to follow.

The Cranium Ultimate Book of Fantastic Fun & Games: Share the Fun with Family and Friends (Cranium)

It's time to gather your family and friends together for some seriously fantastic fun! You'll act, sculpt, guess, draw, and laugh your way through every page of this rewritable book that's packed with games and activities you can play again and again. Turn your dining room into a game show with Wheel of Words! Move and groove around the house as you throw your own Dance Party! Sculpt a new 'do (or two!) with Hairdo Hilarity! With dozens of fun activities, the fantastic fun time is endless!

Here's all the cool Cranium stuff you'll find inside:

-Fold-out Cranium Fantastic Fun Game
-Cranium Super Spinner
-Two Flipper Frogs
-Deluxe Game Piece
-Huge tub of Cranium Clay
-100 Game Cards
-Erasable Marker
-Sand Timer

The Cranium Ultimate Book of Fantastic Fun & Games will provide hours of game-time fun for you and your family and friends!

The Amazing Game Board Book

Great for travel! Bound into the book are 12 different game boards, including a foam pegboard, magnetic boards and write-on/wipe-off boards. There is something for everyone. More than 50 games and activities in all. Includes everything you need to play the games, and everything is magnetic or sticks into the game boards for easy storage and contained play. Includes Chinese Checkers, Checkers, Tangrams, Optical Illusions, Secret Codes, WORD Search, Brain Teasers, Memory Match Cards, Tic-Tac-Toe, Superstar Hangman, and many other timeless favorites. Age 6+.

Easy Sight Words Bingo (Phonics Bingo)

A new twist on an old favorite! Students learn basic words as they race to complete their bingo cards. These colorful games are perfect for teaching the important word recognition skills young learners need. Each set comes with 36 bingo cards, a master chart, calling cards, tokens and suggestions for extra vocabulary-building activities.

Chess: From First Moves to Checkmate