5 Chess Openings Everyone Should Know
Today I will be showing you 5 Chess Openings. Some of them you might have already known, but some of them you might just learn.
#1. Italian Game
I had already made a blog about the Italian game and here is a link to the blog.
I'll still talk about this popular opening as it is one of the best openings after 1.e4.
The Italian Game is an opening based on 1.e4 as I said in the followed sentence. After this pawn move, black copies you with the same move. This lets your bishop and queen have opened spaces to move around. We then develop with 2.Kf3. We are starting a small attack with the knight on the pawn. This is how most openings start off. Black defends the pawn with 2.Kc6. White responds with the final move of this opening, 3.bc4.
This opening is lead by many other moves including 3.bc5, the Giuoco Piano Game: Italian Variation, or the Fried Liver attack, following with a fork: Kg5 and Kf7.
To give you a better point of view here is a game I played with the Italian Game:
This is a blitz game I had played against my brother. It should give you an understanding of this opening.
#2. Kings Indian Attack
The Kings Indian is a fairly popular opening that many of you might have heard of. Let's go through this together. The opening starts off with 1.Kf3. White is trying to stop the move e5. White is also trying to play g3, which is coming up later. Black plays 1.d5, the queen's pawn opening. This opens the black's white square bishop's view. White continues with 2.g3, as I said and the openings over. Nice simple Kings Indian Attack. Here's a diagram/puzzle to see if you are confident with the opening.Â
Sadly, I couldn't find a game with this opening. I will replace a game with a video by ChessNetwork:
#3. Vienna Game
The Vienna Game is also an opening I believe you might be fond of. White starts off the game with 1.e4, like the Italian Game. In the Italian Game chapter, I said this lets our bishop and queen have open spaces to move around. Black copies, 1.e5, and white plays 2.Kc3 or knight c3Â defending his E file pawn. That is it for the Vienna Game. Here's the puzzle:
#4. Queens Gambit
Lots of you have probably used or heard of this gambit. The Queens Gambit has been popular from the Netflix movie,
The Queens Gambit, a movie watched by millions on the movie's opening. Overall, the Queens Gambit is one of the most popular openings.
The gambit starts off with 1.d4, letting out the black squared bishop for white. The objective of this opening is to gambit a pawn to earn control of the center. Black plays the same, 1.d5. Now we gambit our queenside bishops pawn with 2.c4. If black takes, white can gain control of the middle board with e4.
So far white is doing good and has a likely chance of winning after controlling the board. If black tries to break the control, white will bring out their knight and take, as their knight is now in the middle.Â
#5. Londen System
If you're from Englund, you probably have heard of this. The Londen system is well known across the world. You start off with the queen's pawn opening, 1.d4. Black will respond with 1.d5, and white moves 2.Kf3. Kind of the opposite of the Vienna Game. Black copies, with 2.Kf6, and white responds with 3.Bf4. Developing our pieces. Bishop, and knight. A famous pair. That ends this opening.
I hope you enjoyed this short article and I will make sure to add more openings to update you on this article. Thanks for reading!
