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 Alekhine Defense with the Exchange Variation
CLEARANCE - Winning with the Leningrad Dutch 7...Qe8
CLEARANCE - Beating the Sicilian Defense Chameleon Variation
CLEARANCE - Rubinstein Complex of the Nimzo-Indian
CLEARANCE - Henning Schara Gambit
CLEARANCE - The Noteboom Variation
CLEARANCE - How to Play the Belgrade Gambit
CLEARANCE - The Aggressive Nimzowitsh Sicilian
CLEARANCE - Queen's Gambit Accepted
CLEARANCE - The Fischer Attack in the Najdorf
CLEARANCE - The Tchigorin Defense
CLEARANCE - The Dynamic Philidor Counter-Gambit
CLEARANCE - Beating the King's Indian and Benoni
CLEARANCE - Winning with the Benko Gambit
CLEARANCE - Play the Sicilian Defense: Winning Against 1. e4
The Scandinavian Defense Revisited: A Cold Blooded Counter to 1. e4! - HARDCOVER
CLEARANCE - Winning Against Flank Openings
CLEARANCE - The Sicilian Scheveningen for Black
CLEARANCE - King's Indian Defense: Yugoslav Variation 6 ...c5
CLEARANCE - The Anti-Meran Botvinnik
CLEARANCE - The Trompowsky Attack
CLEARANCE - Blackburne-Hartlaub Gambit
CLEARANCE - New Sicilian Gambits
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Defense in the Last Decade
PRE-ORDER - The Iron English
CLEARANCE - Nimzovich Attack: Norfolk Gambits
CLEARANCE - Dynamic White Openings
CLEARANCE - How To Play the Winawer Countergambit
CLEARANCE - The Catalan
CLEARANCE - French Defense - Classical System
CLEARANCE - Dynamic Black Defense
CLEARANCE - How to Play Against the Staunton Gambit
CLEARANCE - The Lisitsin Gambit
CLEARANCE - Beating the King's Indian and Benoni Defense with 5. Bd3
CLEARANCE - Sicilian Defense 4: Gurgenidze
