Chess Openings For Dummies

Improve your chess game the fast and easy way You never get a second chance to make a first impression?especially in the game of chess! Chess Openings For Dummies gives you tips and techniques for analyzing openings and strategies for winning chess games from the very first move you make! This friendly, helpful guide provides you with easy-to-follow and step-by-step instructions on the top opening chess strategies and gives you the tools you need to develop your own line of attack from the very start. Includes illustrations to help ensure victory Equips you with the tools and strategies to plan a winning strategy Also serves as a valuable resource for curriculums that use chess as a learning tool Whether you?re a veteran or novice chess player, Chess Openings For Dummies is the ultimate guide to getting a grip on the openings and variants that will ensure you have all the right moves to open and win any chess game.

Improve your chess game the fast and easy wayYou never get a second chance to make a firstimpression?especially in the game of chess! Chess Openings ForDummies gives you tips and techniques for analyzing openingsand strategies for winning chess games from the very first move youmake!This friendly, helpful guide provides you with easy-to-followand step-by-step instructions on the top opening chess strategiesand gives you the tools you need to develop your own line of attackfrom the very start.* Includes illustrations to help ensure victory* Equips you with the tools and strategies to plan a winningstrategy* Also serves as a valuable resource for curriculums that usechess as a learning toolWhether you?re a veteran or novice chess player, ChessOpenings For Dummies is the ultimate guide to getting a grip onthe openings and variants that will ensure you have all the rightmoves to open and win any chess game.

Introduction 1Part I: Principles of Play 7Chapter 1: Understanding Chess Openings 9Chapter 2: Exploring the Elements of Chess 17Chapter 3: Picking the Right Type of Opening 27Part II: Winning with Open Games 35Chapter 4: Gambling with Gambits 37Chapter 5: Opening Softly with a Big Stick: The Bishop Makes Its Move 57Chapter 6: Workin' on Some Knight Moves 71Chapter 7: Employing the Royal Ruy 79Chapter 8: The Best of the Rest of the Open Games 99Part III: Having It Both Ways with Semi-Open Games 111Chapter 9: Sharpening the Sicilian 113Chapter 10: Parlez-vous the French? 135Chapter 11: Anyone Can Caro-Kann 155Chapter 12: Rope-a-Dope with the Pirc and Modern Defenses 171Chapter 13: The Best of the Rest of the Semi-Open Games 185Part IV: Conquering with Closed and Semi-Closed Games 195Chapter 14: Offering the Queen's Gambit 197Chapter 15: Declining with the Slav and Semi-Slav 213Chapter 16: Getting Hypermodern with the Nimzo-Indian 229Chapter 17: Fighting Back with the King's Indian 241Chapter 18: Grinding in the Grünfeld 255Chapter 19: The Best of the Rest of the Semi-Closed Games 265Part V: Advancing with Flank Openings 283Chapter 20: Speaking the King's English 285Chapter 21: Getting Réti 305Chapter 22: The Best of the Rest of the Flank Openings 313Part VI: The Part of Tens 327Chapter 23: Ten Common Mistakes to Avoid in the Opening 329Chapter 24: Ten Best Ways to Study Chess Openings 339Chapter 25: Ten Great Chess Web Sites 345Index 349