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 - Levenfish Attack in the Dragon Defense
CLEARANCE - The Sicilian Richter-Rauzer
CLEARANCE - The King in the Opening
Opening Hacker Files - The Anti-Alapin Gambit
CLEARANCE - Das Schach-Archiv - 48
CLEARANCE - French Defense - Classical System
SHOPWORN - The Polish Defense - Systems for Black Based on ...b5
CLEARANCE - How to Play the Belgrade Gambit
CLEARANCE - The Complete Encyclopedia of Chess Openings - King's Indian Defence E92
Opening Repertoire - The Killer Dutch Rebooted
CLEARANCE - Das Schach-Archiv - 46
CLEARANCE - Who's afraid of the King's Gambit
CLEARANCE - Beating the King's Indian and Benoni
CLEARANCE - The New Classical King's Indian
CLEARANCE - Nimzovich Attack: Norfolk Gambits
The Dragon Sicilian
CLEARANCE - King's Indian Defense: Yugoslav Variation 6 ...c5
CLEARANCE - Anti-Meran D45/46 - Hypermodern Theory of Openings
CLEARANCE - Meran and Anti-Meran Variation
CLEARANCE - Beating the Flank Openings
CLEARANCE - Schliemann Defense - Vol. 2 - Classical Variation
CLEARANCE - The Fianchetto King's Indian
CLEARANCE - The Chigorin's Queen's Gambit
CLEARANCE - Understanding the Spanish
CLEARANCE - The Anti-Meran Botvinnik
CLEARANCE - The Dynamic Philidor Counter-Gambit
The Makogonov Variation
CLEARANCE - How to Play the Dilworth Attack
CLEARANCE - The Panov Attack - At the Crossroads of Opening Theory - Volume 2 - The Main Lines
CLEARANCE - Euwe Defense - Blackmar Diemer Gambit
CLEARANCE - The Trompowsky Attack
The Hungarian Dragon
CLEARANCE - Rubinstein Complex of the Nimzo-Indian
CLEARANCE - Beat the Dutch Defense
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Defense in the Last Decade
