Winning Chess Openings

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Edition: Paperback
Author: Yasser Seirawan
Skill Range: Intermediate
Publisher: Everyman Chess
Year Published: 2003
# of Pages: 272
ISBN: 1857443497

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The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, you're shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces.

Winning Chess Openings explains how to: build a safe house for a king; estimate losses of ten moves or fewer; utilize the elements: time, force, space and pawn structure; plan strategy based on time-tested opening principles; employ a defense for Black against any White opening; apply an opening for White used by World Champions. Winning Chess Openings will help you develop a solid understanding of opening principles that you can apply to every game you play - without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.

Wholesale Chess recommends this book as the best book for those who want to learn chess openings. (WARNING - Do not make this your first chess book, or your second or your third. Please, for your own sake, read Play Winning Chess, Winning Chess Tactics, and Winning Chess Strategies first! Studying openings is only helpful if you know how to play the rest of the game well!)

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by GordonMcKinney - 52 days ago
Austin, TX United States

Member Since: Aug 2007
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Excellent series and I enjoyed each of the six books. Recommended!

by rgp89 - 6 months ago
New Jersey United States

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As the previous people stated: this book focus on just chess openings from the classical to modern openings showing the main variation and few other variations. It is a good book about opening in general unlike other opening books which may be specific with the all possible variations like the Silician.

by RetGuvvie98 - 6 months ago
Manassas, VA United States

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It is an excellent openings book. One should, however, never neglect studying the endgame, because, as the saying goes: "The Chess Gods put the Middlegame after the Opening, and the Endgame follows." and I would add: a mistake in the opening can often be recovered from - by tactical and technical shots, since lots of material is still on the board and can be utilized. But a mistake in the endgame is usually fatal.

by cheapciggies - 11 months ago
North West London United Kingdom

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 29

(Warning! this is my first chess book!:) I purchased this book on the strength of seeing the authors name on this great site, am 20 pages in and find it easy to follow and a pleasant intro into Yassers and my enlightenment step by step. Can there really be any harm learning a smidge about openings before anything else? Reccomended .

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