There are useful opening
'rules'
(really, guidelines) which should be known and adopted at
least until
you know better. Sadly, even strict obedience to the
rules can
lead to trouble, so you have to learn some specific opening
lines. You don't have to know every opening, but you
need at
least one system for White and a couple as Black.
Which ones you
choose depends on your style and your appetite for study.
Opening principles
It's useful to review and rehearse the reasons for the
I am a fan of your site. It helped me getting started with openings. In return I put the Italian game for you in chessbase format. For me when i see things happening on the board it always help, so i thougth maybe that will help others too.
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My motivation: I like to help youre concept (site) to get better/easier and help others in having more fun in chess. Make it reachable and not for the money.
C.H.O'D. (Hugh) Alexander once remarked, "If God played God in the Ben-oni, White would win. But at any other level, Black's practical chances are excellent."
It's always a pleasure to have a chance to show these games to a new generation of chess players. Dan fancied learning about a more aggressive opening, and one of the ones we looked at was Evans' Gambit.
I have been looking at French repertoires recently, and thought it was
useful for my own amusement at least to see what various authors
writing for the Black audience recommended.
Repertoire books these days often give you a choice, which is excellent.
"THE KING The King himself is haughtie care, Which ouerlooketh all his men, And when he seeth how they fare, He steps among them now and then, Whom when his foe presumes to checke, His seruants stand, to giue the necke. THE QUEENE The Queene is queint, and quicke conceit, Which makes her walke which way she list, Ans rootes them up, that lie in wait, To worke hir treason ere she wist: Hir force is such against her foes, That whom she meets, she ouerthrowes...
