Improve your chess game the fast and easy wayYou never get a second chance to make a first impression?especially in the game of chess!Chess Openings For Dummies gives you tips and techniques for analyzing openings and strategies for winning chess games from the very first move you make!
This friendly, helpful guide provides you with easy-to-follow and step-by-step instructions on the top opening chess strategies and gives you the tools you need to develop your own line of attack from the very start.
Includes illustrations to help ensure victoryEquips you with the tools and strategies to plan a winning strategyAlso serves as a valuable resource for curriculums that use chess as a learning tool
Whether you?re a veteran or novice chess player,Chess Openings For Dummies is the ultimate guide to getting a grip on the openings and variants that will ensure you have all the right moves to open and win any chess game.
Introduction 1
Part I: Principles of Play 7
Chapter 1: Understanding Chess Openings 9
Chapter 2: Exploring the Elements of Chess 17
Chapter 3: Picking the Right Type of Opening 27
Part II: Winning with Open Games 35
Chapter 4: Gambling with Gambits 37
Chapter 5: Opening Softly with a Big Stick: The Bishop Makes Its Move 57
Chapter 6: Workin on Some Knight Moves 71
Chapter 7: Employing the Royal Ruy 79
Chapter 8: The Best of the Rest of the Open Games 99
Part III: Having It Both Ways with Semi-Open Games 111
Chapter 9: Sharpening the Sicilian 113
Chapter 10: Parlez-vous the French? 135
Chapter 11: Anyone Can Caro-Kann 155
Chapter 12: Rope-a-Dope with the Pirc and Modern Defenses 171
Chapter 13: The Best of the Rest of the Semi-Open Games 185
Part IV: Conquering with Closed and Semi-Closed Games 195
Chapter 14: Offering the Queens Gambit 197
Chapter 15: Declining with the Slav and Semi-Slav 213
Chapter 16: Getting Hypermodern with the Nimzo-Indian 229
Chapter 17: Fighting Back with the Kings Indian 241
Chapter 18: Grinding in the Grünfeld 255
Chapter 19: The Best of the Rest of the Semi-Closed Games 265
Part V: Advancing with Flank Openings 283
Chapter 20: Speaking the Kings English 285
Chapter 21: Getting Réti 305
Chapter 22: The Best of the Rest of the Flank Openings 313
Part VI: The Part of Tens 327
Chapter 23: Ten Common Mistakes to Avoid in the Opening 329
Chapter 24: Ten Best Ways to Study Chess Openings 339
Chapter 25: Ten Great Chess Web Sites 345
Index 349
