Winning Chess Openings

by Yasser Seirawan

Overview

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 Openings shows 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 Openings explains 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 Openings will 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781857449099
Publisher:	Continental Sales, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

About the author
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	v
	Introduction	vii
Chapter 1	Early Days	1
Chapter 2	Basic Opening Principles	25
Chapter 3	Classical King Pawn Openings	33
Chapter 4	Classical Queen Pawn Openings	73
Chapter 5	Modern King Pawn Defenses	101
Chapter 6	Modern Queen Pawn Defenses	153
Chapter 7	An Opening Solution	199
Chapter 8	A Solution to the Queen Pawn Opening	213
Chapter 9	A Solution to the King Pawn Opening	223
	Glossary	239
	Index	251