The French Defence is a chess opening. It is characterized by the moves: 1. e4 e6The French has a reputation for solidity and resilience, though it can result in a somewhat cramped game for Black in the early stages. Black often gains counterattac...
The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 c5 At the master level and above, the Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. "Indeed, most statistical surveys suggest t...
The Caro-Kann Defence is a common chess opening characterized by the moves: 1.e4 c6. The usual continuation is 2.d4 d5 followed by 3.Nc3 (the Classical Variation), 3.Nd2 (the Classical Variation), 3.exd5 (the Exchange Variation), or 3.e5 (th...
The Dutch Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves 1. d4 f5 Elias Stein (1748–1812), an Alsatian who settled in The Hague, recommended the defence as the best reply to 1.d4 in his 1789 book Nouvel essai sur le jeu des éch...
I believe these are most of the openings and gambits and traps there is.... Anderssen's Opening: 1. a3 Anderssen's Opening, Polish Gambit: 1. a3 a5 2. b4 Anderssen's Opening, Creepy Crawly Formation: 1. a3 e5 2. h3 d5 Anderssen&...
Irregular openings are chess openings with an unusual first move from White. Such openings include: Anderssen's Opening 1.a3 Amar Opening (also known as Paris Opening) 1.Nh3 Barnes Opening (also known as Gedult's Opening) 1.f3 Benko's ...
In chess, the English Opening is the opening where White plays 1. c4 A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular opening. White begins the fight for the center by staking a claim to the d5 square. Although many lines of the English have a...
In a professional chess game, players should know many variatons if they don't want to fall into an opening trap... For example: After 1.d4 d5 2.c4 black can accept the gambit by 2. ... dxc4 or move another piece(2. ... e6, c6 o...
Below is a good opening. In chess, the English Opening is the opening where White plays 1. c4A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular opening. White begins the fight for the center by staking a claim to the d5 square. Although many lines of ...
Here is one of many fantasic openings....... The Fried Liver Attack, also called the Fegatello Attack (named for an Italian idiom meaning "dead as a piece of liver"), is a chess opening. This colourfully named opening is a variation of t...
I have played many defenses against 1.e4. Despite that I became known as a player of the Caro Kann. Perhaps, wearing a tee shirt that said, "UNIVERSITY OF CARO" on the front helped to promote that notion. The back said, LINA," compl...
This is called quality game here in our place. Which the higher rating play w/out 1 rook and the lower rating play w/out 1 bishop. . Can you help me for this? I play this quality game w/ my friend which has a higher rating than me. So i play w/out...
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Awesome opening: That is the main line. Bxf7 on white last move is better option Paul Morphy Gambit:
this was an improvised opening i played as white against a player about my rating. it looks like a kings indian, but i haven't seen it before. does anyone know if it has a name, and if it doesn't, can i name it? &...
The year was 1968. I heard the book would be available in America. The place to obtain it was at 80 East 11th Street in New York City. The United States Chess Federation had been at home there for a few years. In the same building, on another floo...
The Sicillian narjarf is my fav opening. It goes E4-C5 Nf3-D6 D4-CxD4 Nf3xD4-Nf6 NC3-A6 This is a very solid position for black. Black's whole game revolves around the b7 pawn which will be advanced to B5 later. Kasparov and Fischer both used ...
PLEASE help me.What should I do as white?I thought about whites move for weeks but I couldn't find a solution.
We saw in the previous article the main line of the closed variation of the Morphy defence (3..a6), and the advantages and disadvantages, we also briefly discussed why white generally prefers to play the prophylactic 9.h3 instead of the imme...
The morphy defence was obviously first championed by the famous American, Paul Morphy, who was the first to support that the move 3...a6 after 3.Bb5 is the best move as gives Black a lot of flexibility. As we have already seen that the exchange va...
The Alekhine variation of the exchange variation in the Ruy Lopez, after 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6, is 5.d4 immediately challenging the center. The ideas again are very similar to the other main variations following the Ruy Lopez ex...
Now let's take a look at another variation, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb4 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5.0-0. This variation was employed by one of the greatest chess players ever, Robert James Fischer. After 5.0-0 the threat Nxe5 becomes real. Because after ...
This series of articles will explain the basic ideas behind the exchange variation in the Ruy Lopez, and explore the key variations. But firstly let's see why white would want to exchange his bishop on b5 with black's knight on c6.&...
As the game began, my opponent used the deliberately rude tactic of reading a newspaper during the game. The rudeness was not shown by merely reading during the game. After all, I myself had been a reader during games. However, I always read on th...
