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French Defense – Exchange Variation

The exchange variation of the French Defense ? Read through a few generic opening books for beginners and you will be lucky if the exchange variation gets more than a...

Opening principles: How To Control The Center

Here you are in your journey to become a strong Chess player. You know how pieces are moving. Also, you have already learnt many tactical patterns, (like the fork, the...

French Defense – Advance Variation

The French Defense is one of Black's main defenses against 1. e4. One of White's favorite ways to handle the french defense is the advance variation, in which White clarifies...

The French Defense

The French defense is one of the most popular defenses against 1. e4. It is regularly played at the highest level, although both 1… e5 and the Sicilian are more...

The Petrov Defense

The Petrov defense has long been recognized as one of the most solid defenses against 1. e4. Players like Boris Gelfand and more recently Fabiano Caruana have contributed to its...

Understand The Giuoco Pianissimo

The Giuoco Pianissimo is one of the main system arising from the Italian game. As its name suggests, this is mostly a positional system, where both sides are trying to...

Surprise White With The Semi Italian Game 3… d6.

The Italian Game is a very rich opening system in which any player can find a line that suits his own style: attacking players can rely on the Two Knights...

The Hungarian Defense

The Hungarian Defense is a variant of the Italian Game, a very rich opening system. Those two moves are excellent. Bishop to c5 is the start of the solid Giuoco...

The Evans Gambit

Around 1825, on a steamboat traveling between Wales and Ireland, captain Evans, a strong Chess amateur, was playing a game against one of the best players of his time, Alexander...

An Overview Of The Italian Game

The Italian game is one of the oldest Chess openings. Analysis about the Italian game have been found from as early as the fifteenth century, by Italian players such as...