The perfect introduction to chess, whether you're a budding master or you've never played before. As well as a glossary of chess terms and profiles of some of the world's greatest players, there's also unusual trivia and unbelievable true chess stories from history.
Are you ready to take your performance to the highest level? Then strap on your flight helmet and light the afterburners. It's time to enter rare air!
The subject matter of each of these lovely stories you would think is aimed at children; puddles, reindeer, a squirlybird, a lift, a pixie and a porcupine, a wasp and a raindrop. Once you start to read them, however, they all have a message aimed at adults. There is a wasp who dislikes hurting humans and wants to become a bee to the horror of his companions. Then there are 2 lifts in a hotel, called Ginger and Fred, who spend many years taking customers up and down to the various floors until modern life destroys both the hotel and themSource: Dexter