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How's Your Opening?

Submitted by kbcbishop on Sat, 12/06/2008 at 9:09pm.

Eric Schiller says (http://www.chess.com/chessmentor/view_course.html?id=289), "I often refer to "the opening guidelines". By this I mean the four rules which will generally get you through the openings

1. Place a pawn or two in the center
2. Castle!
3. Connect your rooks
4. Aim your rooks

When you aren't sure what do do, think about those four goals."

Evaluate your opening by these four guidelines. How are you doing? With which of the four do you struggle the most? What can you do to remember that guideline more consistently?

 

Comments:

by cypruss9 - 15 months ago
Boston United States
Member Since: Sep 2010
Member Points: 2

i can get two of the three consistently

I always wait to castle till the last minute or I dont even do it at all.that is what I really need to work on, and effective application of a castle at a strategic point in the gam. doing it in the begionning shifts the attack of your opponent.

by dubayeww - 2 years ago
Syracuse ,N.Y. United States
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 208

that sound like wisdom to me.

by chesswiz2 - 2 years ago
New York United States
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 25

that is good

by madpawn - 3 years ago
London England
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 1039

That is fine, as long as you remember that every move your opponent makes, ask yourself: what exactly is he/she up to with that move?

 

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