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Chess 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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Understanding 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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Chess Openings: Indian Systems

Indian Systems Indian systems which come under Semi closed Games classification is studied separately because of their importance and variety. They begin with the asymmetrical opening moves 1 d4 Nf6....

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4 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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Chess 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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Quick 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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The need for Chess opening strategies

The need for Chess opening strategies In the game of chess, one player cannot score a victory over the opponent in a single move.  The minimum number of moves required to say checkmate to an opponent – who...

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Chess 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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My 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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Chess Openings: Sicilian Defense

Category – Semi Open Game Opening Move Sequence – 1 e4 c5 ECO Codes – B20 and B99 Analyzed as far back as 1594 by Sicilian Giulio Polerio (after whom it is named) and Gioachino Greco, ...

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