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He crafts chess pieces from stone.
A neophyte, by definition, is someone who ignorant or unknowledgeable about a certain topic or situation.
Until he masters the rudiments of chess, I wouldn't recommend that he enter the tournament.
The word 'chess' is a singular, uncountable noun. Units of chess are expressed as games of chess tournaments of chess.
An easy way to win at chess doesn’t exist
Chess originated in India in the 1200s.
The origin of chess is in India.
Bruce Pandolfini has written: 'Square one' -- subject(s): Chess problems, Chess for children, Chess 'Principles of the new chess' -- subject(s): Chess 'Weapons of chess' -- subject(s): Chess 'Beginning chess' -- subject(s): Chess problems, Chess 'Chess openings' -- subject(s): Openings, Chess, Openingen (schaken), Tactiek 'More chessercizes' -- subject(s): Chess problems 'Every Move Must Have a Purpose' 'The chess doctor' -- subject(s): Chess problems 'Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess' 'Q&A Way in Chess' 'Power mates' -- subject(s): Checkmate (Chess) 'Let's play chess!' -- subject(s): Chess, Juvenile literature 'Chessercizes' -- subject(s): Chess, Collections of games, Study and teaching 'The winning way' -- subject(s): Openings, Chess 'More chess openings' -- subject(s): Chess, Openings 'BEST OF CHESS LIFE AND REVIEW, VOLUME 1 (Fireside Chess Library)' 'Kasparov's winning chess tactics' -- subject(s): Chess, Collections of games, Tournaments
Shaun Taulbut has written: 'An introduction to chess' -- subject(s): Chess 'Positional chess' -- subject(s): Chess, Collections of games, Middle games 'Play the Bogo-Indian' -- subject(s): Chess, Openings 'How to play the Ruy Lopez' -- subject(s): Chess, Openings 'An Introduction to Chess (Crowood Chess Library)' 'Chess exchanges' -- subject(s): Chess, Middle games
Yasser Seirawan has written: 'Winning chess strategies' -- subject(s): Chess 'Winning Chess Endings (Winning Chess)' 'Winning chess brilliancies' -- subject(s): Collections of games, Chess 'Competitive chess for kids' -- subject(s): Chess for children, Juvenile literature, Chess 'Playing Winning Chess'
George Koltanowski has written: 'Adventures of a chess master' -- subject(s): Chess, Schaken, Blind schaken 'With the chess masters' -- subject(s): Chess 'Checkmate!' -- subject(s): Checkmate (Chess)
T. D. Harding has written: 'Sicilian: Lines With...E5' 'Evans Gambit And A System Versus Two Knights' Defense' 'Vienna opening' -- subject(s): Openings, Chess 'The Italian Game' -- subject(s): Openings, Chess 'The chess computer book' -- subject(s): Computer chess 'Openings for the club player' -- subject(s): Openings, Chess 'Better chess for average chess-players' -- subject(s): Chess 'Eminent Victorian chess players' -- subject(s): Chess players, Chess, Biography 'Correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1987' -- subject(s): Collections of games, Chess, Correspondence chess, History 'Sicilian Richter Rauzer'
Andy Soltis has written: 'Colle system' 'Pawn structure chess' -- subject(s): Pawn (Chess) 'The inner game of chess' -- subject(s): Chess, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Chess 'The best chess games of Boris Spassky' -- subject(s): Collections of games, Chess 'The art of defense in chess' -- subject(s): Openings, Chess 'The book of chess lists' -- subject(s): Miscellanea, Chess 'Tal The Magnificent' 'The younger school of Soviet chess' -- subject(s): Chess players, Chess, Collections of games 'The great chess tournaments and their stories' -- subject(s): Chess, Tournaments, Biography 'Black to play and win with 1-g6' -- subject(s): Chess, Openings, Collections of games 'Colle system: Zukertort variation, 5 b3' 'Opening ideas and analysis for advanced players' 'Catalog of chess mistakes' -- subject(s): Chess 'How to play the Sicilian defense against all white possibilities' 'Beating the Sicilian Defense with the Short-Nunn Attack' -- subject(s): Chess, Openings, Collections of games
Samuel Reshevsky has written: 'Reshevsky on the Fischer-Spassky games for the world championship of chess' -- subject(s): Chess, Tournaments, 1972 'Best Games of Chess' 'How chess games are won' -- subject(s): Chess 'Art of Positional Play (Chess)' 'Reshevsky's best games of chess' -- subject(s): Chess
Graham Burgess has written: 'The King's Indian for the attacking player' -- subject(s): Chess, Openings 'Chess' 'The Mammoth Book of Chess' -- subject(s): Chess, Collections of games 'Gambits' -- subject(s): Chess, Openings, Collections of games 'The mammoth book of the world's greatest chess games' -- subject(s): Chess, Collections of games 'The Slav'
Alfred C. Klahre has written: 'Early chess in America' -- subject(s): Chess 'Chess potpourri' -- subject(s): Chess
D. Brine Pritchard has written: 'Go' -- subject(s): Go (Game) 'Begin chess' -- subject(s): Chess 'Mahjong' -- subject(s): Mah jong 'Mahjong' -- subject(s): Mah jong 'Beginning chess' -- subject(s): Chess 'First moves' -- subject(s): Chess, Openings