Chess is considered the most perfect board game we know. Imagination, strategic skill, and tactical empathy are required to play a good game of chess. In the first part of this extended edition, these qualities are awakened alongside a thorough understanding of the game rules. Instead of lengthy theoretical explanations, practical reenactments of selected teaching examples in coherent game sequences make the profound thought processes of piece movements on the 64 squares easily understandable for beginners of all ages. In the second part, the eye for promising paths in the chess game is trained. Through selected examples of some of the most beautiful and brilliant checkmating attacks in chess history, a sense of strategy, tactics, and position is conveyed. The reader is encouraged to recognize the decisive checkmating attack.