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 - Beating the Pirc/Modern with the Fianchetto Variation
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Modern Richter Rauzer Systems Unbound
CLEARANCE - The Polish Defense
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Defence Najdorf Variation 7 - B96
CLEARANCE - The Fianchetto King's Indian
CLEARANCE - The Sicilian Flank Game
Battling the Aggressive Italian Game: Calm Precision Against Fierce Attacks - HARDCOVER
CLEARANCE - Who's afraid of the King's Gambit
CLEARANCE - The Chigorin's Queen's Gambit
The English Opening Vol 2: The Continuations 1.c4 e5 and 1.c4 Nf6
CLEARANCE - Nimzo-Indian E32
CLEARANCE - Tactics in the Chess Opening - VOLUME 6
CLEARANCE - The New Classical King's Indian
CLEARANCE - Secrets of Opening Surprises - VOLUME 14
PCO: Practical Chess Openings
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Defence
CLEARANCE - Levenfish Attack in the Dragon Defense
CLEARANCE - Semi-Slav Defence - Non-Meran Variations
CLEARANCE - Understanding the Spanish
Chess Opening Repertoire: Benoni Mayhem
CLEARANCE - Secrets of Opening Surprises - VOLUME 13
Chess Opening Repertoire: Semi-Slav
Tackling the Trompowsky & Torre Systems
PRE-ORDER - Chess Opening Repertoire: London System
CLEARANCE - Chess Movies 1
Battling the French & Caro-Kann: A Practical Opening Repertoire for White – Volume 1 – HARDCOVER
The Modernized Catalan - Volume 1 - HARDCOVER
CLEARANCE - Schliemann Defense - Vol. 2 - Classical Variation
Miniatures in the King's Indian: Fianchetto Systems
SHOPWORN - Chess Movies 1
CLEARANCE - Queen's Indian Defense
CLEARANCE - Rubinstein Variation, Nimzo-Indian Defense - An Original View of the Opening
CLEARANCE - The King in the Opening
CLEARANCE - The Arkhangelsk Variation of the Ruy Lopez - Volume 1
CLEARANCE - Modern Exchange Gruenfeld
