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I assume at your level it is much more beneficial to know about the basic ideas of an opening rather than memorizing lines which stem from it. Winning Chess Openings by Yasser Seirawan is fantastic

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The Chess Opening Essentials series by New In Chess is great, the series of four books covers various openings from the various defenses to 1.e4 to 1.d4 and so forth. Of course Everyman Chess also produces more advanced openings books such as the Play the. Likewise any opening book published by Quality Chess is of good quality. Both thechesswebsite and Dereque Kelly's channels are excellent for such.įor learning about specific openings I can recommend the Starting Out series by Everyman Chess which covers the selected opening in a very clear and instructive manner, also covering its variations.įor a more advanced look at an opening the Grandmaster Repertoire series by Quality Chess is top notch. Besides books youtube is also a great source for learning about openings. Silman's book is just great in my opinion for beginners because of how clear and easy to use it is.īoth Sam Collins and Paul van der Sterren's books I also highly recommend. c6-c5 means that Black will try to slow the play down. c7-c5 is still an important source of counterplay and, as compared to the French, Black has already moved this pawn and lost a tempo as a result. The negative side of this opening revolves around the fact that.

e6) keeps the c8-h3 diagonal open for Black's light-squared Bishop. While the Caro-Kann (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5) and the French Defense (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5) both strive to gain a central foothold with a defended d5-pawn, the Caro leads to calmer positions than its French brother. There's just much easier ways to say the same ideas. Attention has thus moved away from the Italian Game, with its more durable neighbour the Spanish Game (Ruy Lopez) proving a more promising route to an enduring edge for White.

We would need a pretty compelling reason not to play such an obviously logical move and unfortunately such abstention is justified by the fact that Black, by most accounts, has a pretty easy route to equality in all variations. The development of White's bishop to c4 prepares castling, eyes the f7-pawn and hinders an early. I find a lot of the above books to either be to loaded with notation and grand master games to be useful to a beginner, or in the case of Collins' Understanding Chess Openings, to be a bit over the top in his language. I'm already finding myself playing better in just one day as a direct result.

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Simple, easy to digest and full of tactics and strategy. Just saw this yesterday for the first time and its the first Chess Book I felt I had to spend the money on. The Complete Book of Chess Strategy by Silman.

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