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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 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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
A few weeks ago, I discussed some typical ideas for Black in the Ruy Lopez. This article started to grow so much that I decided to split it into two...
In every opening, White is trying to achieve something. For instance, the Italian game creates an early pressure on f7 to drive the game through tactical motives. In some other...