Winning Chess Openings

by Seirawan, Yasser

• ISBN13: 9781857443493
• ISBN10: 1857443497
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Everyman Chess

Summary

Start every game with confidence! The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defence formations in the process.Winning Chess Openingsshows players how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, they are shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces. Winning Chess Openingsexplains how to: *Build a safe house for a king *Estimate losses of ten moves or fewer *Utilise the elements: time, force, space, and pawn structure *Plan strategy based on time-tested opening principles of play *Employ a defence for Black against any White opening *Apply an opening for White used by World Champions Winning Chess Openingswill help readers develop a solid understanding of opening principles that can be applied to every game they play--without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.

Author Biography

Yasser Seirawan is the highest-rated American chess professional on the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rating ladder and the first American to vie for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. He is a three-time U.S Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion and an eight-time member of the U.S chess Olympiad team. Currently one of the worlds top-ranked chess players, he is one of only a handful of players to have defeated world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Introduction	p. vii
Early Days	p. 1
Basic Opening Principles	p. 25
Classical King Pawn Openings	p. 33
Classical Queen Pawn Openings	p. 73
Modern King Pawn Defenses	p. 101
Modern Queen Pawn Defenses	p. 153
An Opening Solution	p. 199
A Solution to the Queen Pawn Opening	p. 213
A Solution to the King Pawn Opening	p. 223
Glossary	p. 239
Index	p. 251
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