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71Chess Openings: King's Gambit
Category – Open Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 e4 e5, 2 f4 ECO Codes – C30 to C39 King's Gambit opening has a long documented history. Both Luis Ramirez de Lucena and Giulio Polerio analyzed...
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68Chess Book Review
Medieval Style Chess Pieces Chess Games Free, searchable chess game database and community. I recently went to the library and checked out several chess books. I checked out the following: (1) 50 Essential...
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734 Popular Chess Openings
How you open a game of chess is important in setting the pace. The game has the capability of playing out in so many different ways depending on the moves made by each player. Whereas there is no standard...
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69Chess Openings: Scandinavian Defense
Category – Semi Open Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 e4 d5 ECO Codes – B01 Scandinavian Defense also known as Center Counter Defense was documented in a game played in 1475 in Valencia and...
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71Chess Openings
Analyzing chess openings goes back at least to the 1400s. Throughout the centuries, variety of names got attached to various openings. There was no systematic order to the way these names were adopted....
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71Quick 5 Move Checkmate
There are times when you feel like you have used certain moves too much that maybe your opponent has mastered it and therefore you have decided on learning the 5 checkmate moves. Although the 5 checkmate...
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72Chess Openings: French Defense
Category – Semi Open Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 e4 e6 ECO Codes – C00 and C19 French Defense was so named after 1834 London vs. Paris correspondence match though the opening was...
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66Chess Openings: Caro-Kann Defense
Category – Semi Open Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 e4 c6 ECO Codes – B10 and B19 Named after Englishman Horatio Caro and Austrian Marcus Kann, this opening was studied by them in nineteenth ...
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63My Favorite Chess Openings
Currently, my favorite Chess openings are the Ruy Lopez and the Italian Game. As can be seen from the pictures here, they differ only in the third move for white. The Ruy Lopez uses: 3. Bf1-b5, while the...
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66Understanding the Moves in Chess
The objective of the game is to ultimately trap or beat your opponent’s king by preventing your opponent’s king to move or make countermove in any direction possible and get away from your attack known...
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