We’ve all been there many times during our chess life: You start a game of chess (either over the board or online) and you’re faced with some never-seen-before-opening-moves by your opponent. How should you react in such a situation? 1. Do not panic Just because you’ve never seen this opening […]
Chess Openings
If you’re an experienced chess player, you have likely heard of these before. Opening principles that have been passed on from chess generation to chess generation until today. Little has changed over the centuries regarding these principles (but also some has changed indeed and I will add something extra at […]
Important opening principles
1. Not having a plan I firmly believe that it is not necessary to know much of opening theory when you’re a beginner. But this is not to say that you should play random moves. You should always follow opening principles or at least you should have very good reasons […]
The 4 commonest opening mistakes
There are so many books out there on openings. No other phase of the game has been studied so much by chess players. Whether this is right or wrong is a matter for another discussion… But let’s assume for now that you want to learn how to play an opening […]