Chess Opening Essentials: The Ideas & Plans Behind ALL Chess Openings - Volume 1: The Complete 1. e4
An accessible primer and opening reference book, providing es sential knowledge on all chess openings. It explains the basic plans and ideas for both black and white. It gives beginners the ability to choose the openings that suit their style and taste, and gives club players the opportunity to test and review their opening repertoire.\ Chess Opening Essentials gives a flavour of how a particular opening works, with pointers in the right direction if you wish to explore further.
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This volume helps beginners to develop a solid understanding of fundamental opening ideas, gives casual players the ability to choose the opening that suits their style and taste, is a tool for club players to test and review their opening repertoire, as well as a reference book to which advanced players keep returning. The authors do not propagate forcing tactical variations to be memorized mechanically, but explain what you should actually be trying to achieve when playing the opening of your choice. By highlihting important moves and key positions in color, Chess Opening Essentials helps you to get out of any opening in good shape and gives you a foundation on which to build your repertoire.
Preface 5Glossary of chess symbols 6Introduction 9Open Games 11Centre Game 13Danish Gambit 15Bishop's Opening 17Vienna Game 19King's Gambit 22Latvian Counter-Gambit 30Other Minor Lines after 2.[Knight]f3 32Philidor Defence 33Petroff Defence 36Ponziani Opening 42Goring and Scotch Gambits 43Scotch Game 45Four Knights Opening 49Hungarian Defence 52Evans Gambit 53Giuoco Piano 57Italian Game 59Two Knights Defence 62Ruy Lopez 67Ruy Lopez without 3...a6 69Ruy Lopez with 3...a6 77Exchange Variation 78Minor Variations after 4.[Bishop]a4 83Steinitz Defence Deferred 84Archangel and New Archangel Variation 87Open Variation 90Minor Variations after 5...[Bishop]e7 99Marshall Attack 101Closed Variation 106Semi-Open Games 117Minor Defences after 1.e4 119Owen Defence 120Nimzowitsch Defence 120Scandinavian Defence 122Alekhine Defence 126Modern Defence (without c4) 131Pirc Defence 136Caro-Kann Defence 144Advance Variation 150Exchange Variation and Panov-Botvinnik Attack 154Main Line 159French Defence 170Exchange Variation 173Advance Variation 175Tarrasch Variation 179Rubinstein Variation 188Classical Variation 190Winawer Variation 197Sicilian Defence 218Alapin Variation 222Minor Systems after 2.[Knight]c3 [Knight]c6 227Closed Sicilian 229Minor Systems with 2.[Knight]f3 234Rossolimo Variation 237Variations with...[King]b6 243De La Bourdonnais and Kalashnikov Variations 244Sveshnikov/Lasker-Pelikan Variation 247Accelerated Dragon 253Minor Systems after 2...e6 262Pin Variation 263Kan Variation 265Paulsen-Taimanov 270Four Knights Variation 276Moscow Variation 279Minor Variations 283Classical Sicilian 287Richter-Rauzer 289Dragon Variation 295Scheveningen Variation 306Sozin-Velimirovic Attack 316Najdorf Variation 325Najdorf 6.[Bishop]e2 330Najdorf 6.[Bishop]e3 333Najdorf 6.[Bishop]g5 337Index of Games 353
