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I am a beginner and I want to buy a good book on openings but i haven't got a clue which ones are good. I've looked at Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess and from what I've seen it doesn't look too good. and I was going to preorder how to win at chess by levy rozman but I realise it releases on Oct 24th
see: "Discovering Chess Openings" by John Emms...
Good Chess Openings Books For Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-openings-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
Don't mug up openings at your level. Just play the common openings, learn the basic theory (that is the opening principles but not particular lines) and check out some chess.com lessons on the openings that you want to learn. That's more than enough at your level.
BTW, Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess deals mainly with back rank mates, skewers and forks.
Logical Chess by Irving Chernev is probably the best primer ever written. And it contains all the opening theory a beginner needs.
hermanjohnell wrote:
Logical Chess by Irving Chernev is probably the best primer ever written. And it contains all the opening theory a beginner needs.
Sorry but I don't think it's an opening book it's rather a book which analyses games in-depth
rivuchess wrote:
hermanjohnell wrote:
Logical Chess by Irving Chernev is probably the best primer ever written. And it contains all the opening theory a beginner needs.
Sorry but I don't think it's an opening book it's rather a book which analyses games in-depth
Well, every move is commented, even the opening ones and the author explains them in depth. Te opening decides the middle game and the middle game ses the scene for theendgame, so if you want to learn to play chess Chernev´s book is a safe bet. But if OP is after a book with a lot of lines to memorize there are other ones such as Fundamental Chess Openings. I doubt, however, that it will do a beginner much good.
Jul 18, 2023
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Simple Chess. You have it on YT as well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUrgfsyInqNbkyiwPSSBQ6ALkkccKItPE