Download or read book C.J.S. Purdy's Search for Chess Perfection: The Godfather of Chess Instruction Across the 64 Squares written by Cecil John Purdy and published by Thinkers' Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecil Purdy was skilled at teaching chess to beginners, and intermediate players, that he was welcomed by chess publishers everywhere as a premiere example of how to improve one's play and to make great strides of one of the greatest table games ever invented. For those who like good prose, precise explanations, and methods of how to do more, this book has been the classical standard since 1982 in its various incarnations.