The Immortal Game

Chess players (even amateur players) should read about the Immortal Game. It is named that way for a reason. Read all about it in Wiki.

It is extremely entertaining to see how white sacrified everything in almost silly looking moves to capture the black king.

Wiki has a great animation GIF to show each move for this short game. For me, this gives me a more big WOW than watching olympic atheletes do amazing diving or some ice skating champion completing some outrageous difficult moves.

I saw a recent full book length discussion of this game. See
here.

Chess is difficult
Chess is actually a VERY difficult game. Every move has some gives and takes, and it takes patiences, strategy, and just lots of know-hows to be considered a real player out of amateur level. The 8x8 board is small. There is only a few moves for setup before a clash between the knights, pawns and bishops take place. (The rooks and queen are usually supposed to quietly watch these clash happen early in the game)
Books may help me improve my game but they are too hard to read at present form.

Books are hard to read
Chess books are impossible for me to comprehend. It is hard to read them. Chess moves are captured in notations like 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4. Impossible for me to follow unless I play along with a real set. ISO: great looking wood set at a good prize. However, who has time to study this challenging recreation game, sometimes labeled BORING game? Life seems to have much much more higher priority than chess.

Levels vary
It is absolutely no fun to play with real beginners who let me capture their pieces like a hungry man go to a buffet (and can't figure out which square the queen go during setup). It also isn't so fun to let expert players capture my pieces like the hungry man either. My level? slightly better than someone who just learned the moves.
It is hard to find live players. Yes, the computer and the internet tirelessly play with you. But this is intended to be a human game.

Ideally chess is learned by better player coaching a more beginner player in a chess club or something. Again, who has time for that? That's a great teenage activity!

Interactive Chessbook, anyone?
Chess book is a GREAT candidate for an interactive book. There should be a media player style control that lets you see moves visually for example games, and let you actually play with a computer on end games. If electronic book readers can do that, that is a great step forward for technology over reading dead PDF files. There are many java or javascript chess move renderers out there, just not incorporated with a book. Unfortunately I am too amateur to author an interactive chess book.