Chess openings for beginners : essential strategies every player should know /
Martin, Jessica E.,
Chess openings for beginners : essential strategies every player should know / Jessica Era Martin ; illustrations by Collaborate Agency. - First Rockridge Press trade paperback edition. - xi, 126 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Understanding chess openings -- Chess openings, defined -- A quick refresher on game play -- How to read and write notation -- Five general opening principles -- Tactics -- How to choose an opening -- Essential openings to know -- Scholar's mate -- Giuoco piano, or the Italian game -- Fried liver attack -- Ruy Lopez, or the Spanish -- Four knights game -- Scotch game -- French defense -- Caro-Kann defense -- Sicilian defense -- Petrov's defense -- Scandinavian defense -- Pirc defense -- Modern defense -- Queen's gambit -- Slav defense -- Semi-Slav defense -- Tarrasch defense -- Grunfeld defense -- London system -- Nimzo-Indian defense -- King's Indian defense -- Benoni defense -- English defense -- Reti opening -- Catalan opening -- Strategy challenges.
During a chess match, your opening strategy can determine how the rest of the game will go--but how do you know which strategy to use? Learn the most effective tactics, master five key opening principles, and become a worthy opponent with this beginner-friendly guide to the top twenty-five openers, from the Ruy López to the Slav Defense.
9781638076797 $16.99 1638076790 $16.99
Chess--Openings.
Instructional and educational works.
Chess openings for beginners : essential strategies every player should know / Jessica Era Martin ; illustrations by Collaborate Agency. - First Rockridge Press trade paperback edition. - xi, 126 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Understanding chess openings -- Chess openings, defined -- A quick refresher on game play -- How to read and write notation -- Five general opening principles -- Tactics -- How to choose an opening -- Essential openings to know -- Scholar's mate -- Giuoco piano, or the Italian game -- Fried liver attack -- Ruy Lopez, or the Spanish -- Four knights game -- Scotch game -- French defense -- Caro-Kann defense -- Sicilian defense -- Petrov's defense -- Scandinavian defense -- Pirc defense -- Modern defense -- Queen's gambit -- Slav defense -- Semi-Slav defense -- Tarrasch defense -- Grunfeld defense -- London system -- Nimzo-Indian defense -- King's Indian defense -- Benoni defense -- English defense -- Reti opening -- Catalan opening -- Strategy challenges.
During a chess match, your opening strategy can determine how the rest of the game will go--but how do you know which strategy to use? Learn the most effective tactics, master five key opening principles, and become a worthy opponent with this beginner-friendly guide to the top twenty-five openers, from the Ruy López to the Slav Defense.
9781638076797 $16.99 1638076790 $16.99
Chess--Openings.
Instructional and educational works.