Chess Openings For Dummies

Chess Openings For Dummies®......Page 5
About the Author......Page 7
Author’s Acknowledgments......Page 9
Contents at a Glance......Page 11
Table of Contents......Page 13
Introduction......Page 21
Part I: Principles of Play......Page 27
Identifying a Chess Opening......Page 29
Finding an Opening That’s Right for You......Page 32
Reviewing Chess Shorthand......Page 33
Getting Time on Your Side......Page 37
When Spacing Out Is Good......Page 39
Making the Most of Your Material......Page 41
Structuring Your Pawns......Page 42
Securing Your King......Page 45
Considering Naming Conventions......Page 47
Examining Opening Types......Page 49
Part II: Winning with Open Games......Page 55
Why Gamble with a Gambit?......Page 57
Trotting Out the King’s Gambit......Page 58
Delving into the Danish Gambit......Page 68
Lying in Wait with the Latvian Gambit......Page 72
Preying with the Bishop’s Opening......Page 77
Keying Up for the Giuoco Piano......Page 81
Attacking with the Evans Gambit......Page 86
Calling in the Calvary: The Four Knights......Page 91
Ambitious but a Bit Ambiguous: The Two Knights Defense......Page 95
Running with the Ruy López......Page 99
Closing the Deal with the Open Variation......Page 100
Staying Open-Minded with the Closed Variation......Page 104
Marshalling Your Forces with the Marshall Attack......Page 110
Stocking Up with the Exchange Variation......Page 113
Pouring on the Scotch......Page 119
Getting Gory with the Göring Gambit......Page 123
Dabbling with Petroff’s Defense......Page 126
Part III: Having It Both Ways with Semi-Open Games......Page 131
The People’s Choice......Page 133
Entering the Dragon......Page 134
Accelerating the Dragon......Page 139
Knocking Around the Najdorf......Page 143
Shenanigans in the Scheveningen......Page 146
Fooling Around with the Four Knights......Page 150
Nothing Diplomatic Here......Page 155
Charging the Advance......Page 156
Staying Classical......Page 161
Winning with the Winawer......Page 164
Taking Out the Tarrasch......Page 170
Caring about the Caro-Kann......Page 175
The Classical Variation......Page 176
The Smyslov Variation......Page 181
Being Advanced......Page 186
Picking the Pirc......Page 191
The Austrian Attack......Page 192
Picking the Pirc Classical......Page 196
Thoroughly Modern Maneuvers......Page 200
Analyzing Alekhine’s Defense......Page 205
Striking Back with the Scandinavian......Page 210
Part IV: Conquering with Closed and Semi-Closed Games......Page 215
Considering the Queen’s Gambit......Page 217
The Queen’s Gambit Accepted......Page 218
Remaining Orthodox......Page 222
Testing the Tartakower......Page 226
Trading on the Exchange......Page 229
Declining or Delaying?......Page 233
Going Down the Main Line......Page 234
Meeting the Meran Variation in the Semi-Slav......Page 239
Betting on the Botvinnik Variation......Page 243
What Is the Nimzo-Indian?......Page 249
Playing Differently with the Sämisch......Page 250
Kicking Off with the Classical Variation......Page 253
Running with the Rubinstein......Page 257
The Center Can Wait......Page 261
Getting Classical......Page 262
Playing Differently with the Sämisch......Page 266
Going for It All with the Four Pawns Attack......Page 270
Hypermodern to the Max......Page 275
Examining the Exchange Variation......Page 276
Rolling Out the Russian System......Page 280
Considering the Colle......Page 285
Loving the London System......Page 289
Beginning the Benoni......Page 292
Going Dutch......Page 296
Part V: Advancing with Flank Openings......Page 303
The British Are Coming!......Page 305
Reversing the Sicilian......Page 306
Staying Symmetrical......Page 310
Stampeding in the Four Knights......Page 316
Countering with the King’s Indian......Page 320
The Contemporary Réti......Page 325
The Original Réti......Page 329
Winging It with the Bird’s......Page 333
Attacking with the King’s Indian......Page 338
Getting an Edge with the Sokolsky......Page 343
Part VI: The Part of Tens......Page 347
Wasting Time......Page 349
Leading with the Lady......Page 351
Abandoning the Center......Page 352
Creating Weaknesses......Page 353
Pawn Grabbing......Page 354
Blocking Lines......Page 355
Falling for Traps......Page 356
Memorizing Moves......Page 357
Getting a Coach......Page 359
Reading Annotations......Page 360
Playing in Real Time......Page 361
Revving an Engine......Page 362
Buying a Book......Page 363
Playing Sites......Page 365
Informational Sites......Page 366
Index......Page 369