Hansen, Back to Basics: Openings

ChessCafe Back to Basics Chess Series

Because of the sheer volume of variations, possible transpositions and ever-changing theory, chess openings an be overwhelming even intimidating. This book is an introduction to understanding and playing chess openings. The author, Danish Master Carsten Hansen, stresses opening based on comprehending opneing priciples as well as useful, fundamental knowledge. With an overview of all the most important opning variations, examples of good an bad opneing play, opening traps and problems to solve, chess-openings and its major principles are covered thoroughly.
Many games are lost as a result of a player's poor grasp of even the most basic principles of opening play. Thiss book wiil help you enhance your understanding and give you guidelines on how to best study and play chess openings, reaching good, playable middlegame positions.
248 S., kart., 2010

Inhaltsvezeichnis
Author's Dedication: Bibliography
Introduction
1    My Own Experiences with Openings
2    Opening Principles
3    How do I Decide which opening to choose?
4    An Introduction to OPening Theory
5    The Open Games
6    The Semi-Open Games
7    The Closed Games
8    The Semi-Closed games
9    Flank Opeings
10  Where do i go from here?
Index of Names and Variations