Chess Opening Books
The first phase of a chess game is known as the Chess Opening. It is during
this phase of the chess game that the initial moves are made. Similarly, those
moves are commonly referred to in the chess world as the “Chess Opening”.
While there are literally billions of possible positions after the first 4 moves
have been made in a game of chess (288 billion to be exact), only a small number
of these chess openings have been studied by chess professionals and chess
computers and deemed to be sound for practical play.
To help differentiate one chess opening from another, each chess opening is
given a unique name to identify it. While it is common for a chess opening to be
named after the player/s that introduced them to popular play, including the
Benko Gambit (after Grandmaster Pal Benko), the Sicilian Najdorf (named
after Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf) and the Philidor Defense (named after Francois-Andre
Danican Philidor), this is not always the case Some chess openings are named
after the locations and/or cultures in which they originated, including the
London System, the French Defense, the Sicilian
Defense, The English Opening and
the Vienna Game. While others are named after the pieces that are moved during
that opening, including the Queen’s Pawn Gambit and the King’s Indian
Defense.
There are 6 basic objectives during the chess opening. They are Piece
Development, Control of the Center of the Board, King Safety, Prevention of Pawn
Weakness, Piece Coordination and to Create positions in which the player is more
comfortable than the opponent.
CLEARANCE - The Lisitsin Gambit
CLEARANCE - Winning with the Leningrad Dutch 7...Qe8
CLEARANCE - Beating the Alekhine Defense with the Exchange Variation
CLEARANCE - Dynamic White Openings
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Defense 4: Gurgenidze
CLEARANCE - Blackburne-Hartlaub Gambit
CLEARANCE - Beating the King's Indian and Benoni Defense with 5. Bd3
CLEARANCE - Winning with the Benko Gambit
CLEARANCE - New Sicilian Gambits
CLEARANCE - Beating the Sicilian Defense Chameleon Variation
CLEARANCE - Winning Against Flank Openings
CLEARANCE - Beating the Pirc/Modern with the Fianchetto Variation
CLEARANCE - The Aggressive Nimzowitsh Sicilian
CLEARANCE - Play the Sicilian Defense: Winning Against 1. e4
CLEARANCE - Dynamic Black Defense
The Scandinavian Defense Revisited: A Cold Blooded Counter to 1. e4! - HARDCOVER
CLEARANCE - How to Play Against the Staunton Gambit
CLEARANCE - Semi-Slav Defence - Non-Meran Variations
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Modern Richter Rauzer Systems Unbound
CLEARANCE - The Sicilian Flank Game
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Defence Najdorf Variation 7 - B96
PRE-ORDER - The Iron English
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Defence
CLEARANCE - Nimzo-Indian with 4 Qc2
CLEARANCE - How to Play the From Gambit
CLEARANCE - Owen's Defense
CLEARANCE - Rubinstein Variation, Nimzo-Indian Defense - An Original View of the Opening
CLEARANCE - Taimanov and Knight's - Tour Benoni
CLEARANCE - Von Hennig Schara Gambit
CLEARANCE - Larsen's Opening
CLEARANCE - Meran Defense
CLEARANCE - The Offbeat Sicilian
CLEARANCE - The Closed Spanish - Karpov/Zaitsev Systems
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Defence 5: Four Knights Variation
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Richter-Rauzer With A6
