A fully comprehensive guide to a much-neglected chess topic - using skill rather than luck to heat your opponent in the art of swindling. Renowned chess writer Andrew Soltis presents a new take on an under-appreciated strategy in chess, packed with tips, tricks and illustrated examples to guide you on your way to victory. This book is the perfect shortcut to success by setting strategic steps to exploit your opponents' over confidence. In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position sets traps to exploit an opponent's over-confidence, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss. Written by the hugely popular chess writer Andrew Soltis. How to Swindle in Chess tells you how to make your own luck in chess; how to choose the move that has the greatest chance of winning rather than the least chance of losing. Though widely ignored by virtually all chess books, swindling plays an integral rote in deciding the fate of numerous games, and this invaluable book will help you improve your own game. International Grandmaster Andrew Soltis is a chess columnist for the New York Post and a highly respected chess writer.

He is the author of many books, including Bobby Fischer Rediscovered, 365 Chess Master Lessons and What it Takes to Became a Chess Master. Book jacket.