Opening Chess Moves - Play Strong Chess Opening Moves!Learn the following opening chess strategies to be able to play proper and effective opening chess moves in your games right from the start. To know different chess openings is basic chess knowledge. If you become a specialist in a particular chess opening system, you will save a lot of time and energy in a serious game. You will be able to play the first 12 chess moves or more in just about two minutes without much thinking. Of course you don't switch off your brain completely, but you play so much faster and more efficient than before especially if you understand the plan of your chess opening system. 
Most beautiful Chess Sets you have ever seen! Opening Chess Moves Overview1. Open games start with 1.e4 e52. Half open games start with 1.e4 and Black answers not 1...e5 but plays other opening moves 3. Closed games start NOT with e4 but with other chess opening moves. Attention! When you click on a link a Java Chess Applet will be loaded, so please be patient!
Opening Chess Moves of the Open Games - your way to start!Just replay some chess games for fun to get the idea of why certain Opening Chess Moves are played.
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Surprise Weapons for White
Play the above Opening Chess Moves with White and Black, if possible. But use the Evans Gambit and the Kings Gambit just as a surprise weapon, because those Opening Chess Moves are very aggressive and should be studied well before you apply them. If you have the black pieces and your opponent plays first move e4, try to set up the italian position as black. This means that your black bishop should be on c5 (attacking f2) and your knights are placed on c6 and f6. This is a good and solid setup for Black. If White plays the Scotch, then you still can play Bc5 later on in some variations. Make sure you get your pieces out fast to be able to castle on time. For BlackIf you play 1...e5 as Black, you should know how to play the right setup against White's different opening lines. To cover all that knowledge I recommend Play the open games as Black by GM John Emms. For WhiteIf Black plays not e5 but something else... If you have the white pieces and start with 1.e4 and Black does not answer 1..e5 this is no problem as he must play a system, right? And you can study all the systems that are available to the black pieces.After some time you will know how to handle each system that is known unto man. There are different opening systems to be learned. But to penetrate deeper into the spirit of any particular chess openings you have to buy some good chess books/DVD's about the openings you like and begin to specialize. This saves time and effort. So, if Black plays not 1..e5 - so what, after a while you will know the system he has selected and you know the correct set up for white. You will be prepared. It takes time to learn all this but you will get there eventually, don't worry. Start with the Sicilian Defense and the French Defense, after you have studied first the open games above where black answers 1...e5. The Sicilian and French chess openings are very popular and occur quite often. Here you can study many games in detail. Just click on the link below under the image. (Please wait until the games are loaded!)
If you have Black and White plays d4If you have the black pieces and White plays not 1.e4 but 1.d4, then you can play the following Opening Chess Moves (chess openings) as Black. The Queens GambitThe main variation is: 1.d2-d4 d7-d5 2.c2-c4White puts pressure on the center immediately.  Books/DVD After that it branches out into the following opening chess moves: 2.... e7-e6 (Queens Gambit Declined) Get Books/DVD 2.... c7-c6 (Slav Defense) Get Books/DVD 2.... d5xc4 (Queens Gambit Accepted) Get Books/DVD 2.... Sb8-c6 (Chigorin Defense) Get Books/DVD Those opening moves are considered as independent opening systems. I recommend to you to study the above Opening Chess Moves of the Queens Gambit, except the Chigorin Defense, which is dubious, but can be applied as a surprise weapon. Don't bother to learn the following chess variations. They don't appear to be good chess openings, are seldom played and are played only on lower levels of chess. Other solid Opening Chess MovesLearn first the Opening Chess Moves of the Queens Gambit above. After that you can study the Queens-Indian, the Gruenfeld-Indian, the Benoni-Defense, the English-Opening (as Black) and the Colle-System (as Black).
Complex OpeningsThe following chess opening systems should be learned last. The Nimzo-Indian Defense and the Kings-Indian Defense are too complex and difficult for you to get started! They require good positional understanding and chess experience. But keep in mind that the Nimzo-Indian is Black's most successful opening along with the Sicilian Defence!
Surprise Weapons for Black against 1.d4Here you get some surprise weapons, the Dutch, the Budapest Gambit and the Benko-Gambit.
On which Opening Chess Moves (Opening Systems) should I choose to specialize on?I will tell you now my personal opinion based on statistics and cold facts.In the first years of learning chess, it depends how much you play, you should play only 1.e4 with White to create sharp tactical games to learn how to handle tactical positions. With Black play 1...e5 or 1...c5 (Sicilian) for the same reason. After you have played that way for a few years, you should switch over to 1.d4 openings and play chess on a more positional basis. Reasons to play 1.d41. The move 1.d4 is statistically slightly more successful than 1.e4. This is due to the fact that Black scores well with the sicilian defense which decreases the winning potential of 1.e4 in comparison to 1.d4. After you have learned tactical play with e4 for sometime, you should switch to 1.d4 later on. 2. After 1.d4 d5 2.c4 White pressures the center and Black has a somewhat passive game with almost no counterplay and finds it difficult to get somewhere with low winning chances. The tactical risks for White are lower compared to 1.e4 as less often sharp tactical positions arise. White has a slight but enduring positional edge and might convert it into a win with low risks and without running into immense tactical complicated variations where winning or losing just hangs on one tempo. If you compare this to 1.e4 e5 then you see that the situation is different. Here Black has always some sort of a counter chance as long as he puts his pieces on active squares like in the Italian Opening, Spanish or the Sicilian. Particularly the Sicilian proves this point. The game is very sharp and Black has sufficient counter chances. This is the reason why the Opening Chess Moves of the Sicilian are so successful for Black.(except the Dragon Variation) 3. You are getting older and later on when you pass the age of 40, or maybe earlier, you don't like to play sharp tactical chess anymore as this can be quite stressful. You will enjoy strategical play more than tactical play. I observed this trend watching mature players who played chess over thirty years. They tend to play positional chess and like to win using strategical elements of play. In this area they have more experience and more knowledge than young players and this increases their chances to win. And they don't like the stress which is involved when you play highly tactical games where every move counts and everything hangs on one tempi. All those reasons tell me that your first move later on should be 1.d4 and that you should study all relevant chess openings (answers to 1.d4) of Black, to be able to know the right plans. Unusual Chess Openings for Advanced PlayersThe Six-Pawns-Attack The Four-Pawns-Attack The Marshall-Attack. Get Book/DVD A sharp active defense for Black. Try the Marshall-Attack against somebody who plays the Ruy Lopez (spanish opening) to upset him. You sacrifice a pawn and will get active attacking play for that. This opening has been played in world championships and is sound. The Marshall Attack can make White cry... The Anti-Marshall. For the Positional Player (d4-Player)  Raise your IQ! Low Price! NEW! Return from Opening Chess Moves to Chess Strategies - Home
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