Winning Chess Openings
Start every game with confidence!\ The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defence formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows players how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, they are shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces.\ Winning Chess Openings explains how to:\ *Build a safe house for a king\ *Estimate losses of ten...
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Start every game with confidence!The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, you're shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces.Winning Chess Openings explains how to: build a safe house for a king; estimate losses of ten moves or fewer; utilize the elements: time, force, space and pawn structure; plan strategy based on time-tested opening principles; employ a defense for Black against any White opening; apply an opening for White used by World Champions.Winning Chess Openings will help you develop a solid understanding of opening principles that you can apply to every game you play - without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.
AcknowledgmentsvIntroductionviiChapter 1Early Days1Chapter 2Basic Opening Principles25Chapter 3Classical King Pawn Openings33Chapter 4Classical Queen Pawn Openings73Chapter 5Modern King Pawn Defenses101Chapter 6Modern Queen Pawn Defenses153Chapter 7An Opening Solution199Chapter 8A Solution to the Queen Pawn Opening213Chapter 9A Solution to the King Pawn Opening223Glossary239Index251
