Back to Basics: Chess Openings

"A comprehensive guide to chess openings"

There are few things worse than starting a game of chess and before you get settled in, you are stuck with a bad position that has you on the heels for the rest of the game. This book will help you get off to a better start and select openings that suit your understanding and balance your chess studies.

Back to Basics: Openings will help you understand and play the openings in chess much, much better. It will also help balance your studies of openings, and give you a recipe as to how to obtain better results from your openings and how to approach a variety of situations relevant to our topic of openings.

The book covers critical concepts, including:

• Opening Principles
• How do I decide which Openingto Choose?
• An Introduction to opening Theory
• Opening traps
• and much more

Inhoud

• 004 Author's Dedication; Bibliography
• 005 Introduction
• 008 1. My Own Experiences with Openings
• 013 2. Opening Principles
• 030 3. How do I Decide which opening to choose?
• 034 4. An Introduction to Opening Theory
• 039 5. The Open Games
• 084 6. The Semi-Open Games
• 141 7. The Closed Games
• 167 8. The Semi-Closed Games
• 207 9. Flank Openings
• 231 10. Where do I go from here?
• 237 Index of Names and Variations