If you're looking for chess books for beginners this holiday season, Bruce Pandolfini's Beginning Chess: Over 300 Elementary Problems for Players New to the Game definitely belongs in the mix. It's a good first, second, or third book for young players..
My sister-in-law's brother (who's not a patzer) had the good sense to give this book to our nephew the beginner. So Nephew and I spent a couple hours this summer working through several chapters. Even I enjoyed Pandolfini's selections: he has a gift for boiling ideas down to their simplest tactical elements. These are simple shots (some are crude en prise exercises, others are aesthetically pleasing), but all of them are shots that win games. Bright preteens will not find this material too difficult:. A few may even find 90% of the positions too trivial. That's OK: they'll discover that chess will get hard enough soon enough, and they need to practice the 10% of positions that they can't solve on sight.
White to play and win
White to play and win
White to play and win
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Ng6#, Rg7+, c8(N)+
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