THE CHESS OPENINGS GUIDE

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9782955172551

This book covers the chess openings in a very original and very effective way. The era of books 200 pages long to explain a single opening is over! In this book, no less than 21 openings are explained to you. The tools provided in this book will allow you to learn and experience very easily the most common openings. The variants and sub-variants can be viewed at a glance as well as their traps.

Learning the chess openings has never been so accessible. This book will become for you a real workout partner.

A tree opening is descriptive of an opening with its variations and sub-variations. The chess trees of this book offer an original method to approach chess openings. They allow you to learn the openings in a clear, entertaining and motivating way. You can quickly reproduce them on the board to assimilate them easily.

Using this powerful tool, you will be reconciled with chess theory. Openings have never been easier to understand!

Table of contents

Preamble

Chapter I - Tactics and strategy openings

Overview

The different types of games

The principles of development

Chapter II - Chess Trees

Presentation

Algebraic chess notation

Key for chess trees

Open games

Semi-open games

Closed games

Semi-closed games

Chapter III - Open games 1.e4 e5

Italian game

Two knights defense

Scotch game

Spanish game

Morphy defense

Vienna game

King's gambit

Parham attack

Chapter IV - Semi-open games 1. e4 ... all but e5

Alekhine defense

French defense

Caro-Kann defense

Pirc defense

Sicilian defense

Chapter V - Closed games 1. d4 d5

Queen's pawn game (all but 2. c4 ...)

Queen's gambit (2. c4 ...)

Chapter VI - Semi-closed games 1. d4 ... all but d5

East Indian defense

Indian defense - Modern variation

Catalan opening

Nimzo-Indian defense

Budapest gambit

Dutch defense