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 […]
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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 […]
6 steps on learning a new opening
If you ever take part in chess tournaments (or even play chess online), then you’re often paired to play against higher rated players. And some of them can be much higher rated than you. So, how do you deal with that? What are your underlying thoughts? Do you change the […]