Openings for Black

Introduction

This is basically a "part 2" of the very first blog I ever made called Openings for White                     So this time, we're doing openings for black.

Opening 1. French Defense

e4, e6

So, the more usual variation is e4, e6, d4, d5, e5

which looks like that                                        👇🏻

 I'm not sure why so many players do this, because it gives away a lot of the center for white, but, the open side is whites pawns are far advanced into your territory, like the e pawn So that makes the e-pawn weak (a little) so target the e-pawn

Tips:

•  Attack a pawn chain from the bottom. Meaning that the d4-e5 pawn chain- if you want to attack the e-pawn attack the d-pawn first. Of course the opponent will try to stop you from doing that but you need to fight strong. If you don't thats a whole lot of space you've lost.
•  If you need to sacrifice a pawn, in order to go closer to winning the center and if they take, they have a world of pain ahead- Do it. Because the main idea is that a pawn is worth 3 good moves.

Opening 2. Caro-Kann Defense.

e4, c6

One of the most popular e4 responses.                                                                                             And here is why:

The Caro-Kann is a popular reponse to #1. e4 and is classified as a "Semi-Open Game" like the Sicilian Defence and French Defence, although it is known to be more solid, it often leads to good endgames for Black, who has the better pawn structure.

Tips:   

• Although this opening is pretty good for black, it doesn't really fight for the center, so as soon as possible, get your pieces in and fight for the center "the importance of the center never diminishes."

The Double Kings-Pawn Game

e4, e5

This is a normal response to #1. e4, but its also called a Symetrical Game, or Asymetrical Game. This is also a Semi-open game like the Caro-Kann.

This is, again a pretty normal repsonse to e4 so I don't have much tips on this opening.

Sicilian Defense

e4, c5

I felt like people would kill me if I didn't put this in because this is so fricking popular so anyways, here is how it looks in diagram perspective:

There are different types of Sicilian defenses, such as Najdorf, Dragon, Classical, Scheveningen      Najdorf:                                                                                                                                         

Classical:

• 1.e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6

Dragon:

• 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6.

Scheveningen:

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6                                                                                    

So thats it for this blog I hope you learned something - especially one of the new Sicilian lines, because it took quite a while to write that, so I hope you like it.