Chess Book for Beginners.

Cover
Chess notation
Basic Information: battlefield, figures, and rules
Chess Board
	Diagonals
Figures
	King
	Rook
	Bishop
	Queen
	Knight
	Pawn
Check & Checkmate
	Check
	Checkmate
	Draw
Matting (checkmate) the lonely King
	Queen’s checkmate
	Matting (checkmate) with Rooks
	Checkmate with two bishops
	Rook checkmate
	Bishop and Knight Checkmate
Modules of the chess game
	Areas
	Force
	Growth
Specific rules
	Taking on a pass
	Transformation
	Castling
	Stalemate
Opening: Basic principles and types
Traditional principles of openings
	Fight for the center
	Fastest development
	Quick Castling
	Knights before bishops
Modern principles of openings
Initiative
Counterplay
Sacrifices of positioning
Open game
	Spanish game
		Spanish Game: Open version
		Spanish game: Defense of Berlin
	Italian game
		Italian Game: Evans Gambit
	Defense by two knights
	Russian game: defense of Petrov
	King’s Gambit
	Vienna Game
	Philidor Defense
	Danish Gambit
	Scottish Game
	Opening by four Knights
Semi-open Openings
	Sicilian Defense
		Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation
		Sicilian defense: Alapin Variation
	French defense
		French defense: Winawer Variation
		French defense: Tarrasch Variation
	Caro-Kann Defense
	Alekhine’s defense
	Pirc-Ufimtsev defense
Closed Openings
	Queen’s Gambit
		Refuse of Queen’s Gambit: Change Option
		Refused Queen’s Gambit: Tarrasch defense
		Accepted Queen’s Gambit
	Slavic Defense
	New Indian Defense
	Nimzowitch Defense
	Old Indian Defense
		Old Indian Defense: Jewish Variation
	Grunfeld Defense
	Benoni defense
	Chigorin Defense
	Dutch Defense
		Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation
Flank Openings
	English Opening
	Reti Opening
	Orangutan Opening
	Bird Opening
Checkmate: Main types
Checkmate at the last horizontal
Stale checkmate
Queen and pawn checkmate
Damiano’s checkmate
Queen and knight’s checkmate
Queen and bishop checkmate
Checkmate with two rooks
Rook and Bishop checkmate
Rook and knight checkmate
Legal Checkmate
Greco Checkmate
Boden checkmate
Center and flags
Center
	Open center
	Closed Center
	Partially blocked center
	Strain at the center
	Classical center
	Small center
	Hedgehog
	The Maroczy Bind
	Figurative pressure
Flags
	Counterstrike
	Early flank attacks
	Castling on one flank
	Castling on different flanks
Tactic
Basic tactic techniques
	Binder
	Fork
	End-to-end hit
	Open Attack
	Open Check
	Double Check
Sacrifices
	Classical Sacrifice
	Lasker’s sacrifice
	Positional Sacrifice
	Combinational Sacrifice
	Queen’s Sacrifice
Combinations
	Diversion
	Destroying the defender
	Overloading
	Engaging
	Blocking
	Windmill
	X-ray
	Zwischenzug
Positional factors
	Open lines
	Double rooks
	Constructed shapes
	7th horizontal
	Window
	The advantage of two bishops
	Blockage
	Bad Bishop
	Key Fields
Pawns
Pawn Structures
	Fianchetto
	Old Indian Structure
	Dragon Structure
	Stonewall
	Double Stonewall
	French structure
	Closed English Structure
	Scheveningen Variation
	Queen’s Gambit Declined
	Minority Pawn Attack
Strengths and Weaknesses
	Pawn Chains
	Pawn Islands
	Pawn Majority
	Passed Pawn
	Isolated Pawns
	Backward Pawns
	Double Pawns
	Built Pawns
Endgame
Active King
	Zugzwang
Pawn Endings
	The rule of the square
	The King Helps the Pawn
	Opposition
	Forced Move
Heavy Piece Endgame
	Queen’s Endgame
	Queen Against Rooks
	Rook against Pawns
Rook and Pawn Endgames
	Rook and Pawn Against Rook
	Pawn on the 7th horizontal
	Rook and some Pawns
Bishop Endgames
	Bishop vs. Pawns
	Bad Bishop
Knight Endgames
	Knight and Pawn
	Knight vs. Pawns
	Knight and Rook Pawns
	Knight and Pawn vs Knight
Bishop Endgames vs Knight Endgames
	Knight and Pawn against Bishop
	Bishop and Pawn against Knight
	Two Bishops
Exchange and Swap
	Rook vs Bishop
	Rook vs Knight
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