Why Are These Openings So Popular??🧐

Why are these openings so popular? Well lets take a look the Giuoco Piano, probably the most popular opening. The reason why is because it is so powerful. 

Once the pawn is pushed to e5, it forces to bring the knight back. Then, take the pawn on d4 and the bishop will come in with a check. Simply block with the bishop. Once the bishops are traded and the knight took the bishop, white now has 3 developed pieces and black only has one.

Another popular opening is the Sicilian. (e4, c5). The reason why this is such a popular opening because…

… black has both center pawns and will be able to control the center better. You need to have control of the center because the pieces have musch more room and places to go. In the corner, the knight can only go to well about like 2 or 3 places, in the center, it can go to 8 squares.