Robert Johnson - Chess Openings For Beginners: The Best Openings for Beginners. A Detailed Guide With Theory and Practice of More Than 30 Openings and Strategies Explained in a Simple Way

If you begin in the wrong direction, you can easily get lost forever and lose everything you have in the process. That is for ordinary travel, and so is it for the game of chess. That is why you need to know the best chess opening moves. And the best ones are those that ensure you do not make your chess arrangement weak; you do not make yourself vulnerable to your opponent. They are also those moves that make you a threat to your opponents pieces.

Whereas any beginning of a chess game is generally referred to as opening, formal use is usually about the set of moves you make in a particular sequence at the start of the game, which is generally referred to as openings by White, or defenses by Black. Do you know what will amaze you? It is said that you have at your disposal well over a thousand chess openings! Of course, that is quite a long sequence pushing up to the middle game.

Importance of Careful Chess Openings

First of all, you need to know that the player with the white pieces is the one that makes the very first move in chess. And if you are the first player, you must begin with robust and secure moves. Whites, as the game initiators, are believed to have an advantage over the blacks. Statistics seem to back this belief when you observe that whites win the chess game 52-56 percent of the time. And as the player with the black pieces, you find yourself, kind of, trying to counter the moves made by the white. Therefore, you must balance the impact; or rather neutralize the effect of the white moves.

How to Develop Good Openings?

If you want everyone to know you are a novice, begin to make opening moves that are redundant or even dangerous. But if you want to establish a good game for yourself, move your chess pieces to squares where they are most helpful to you. As you make a move right from the onset, ask yourself what impact will this move have on the game? Will my pieces are safe, or will I be exposing some of them? Is this move the most threatening to my opponent at this juncture? If so, go on and utilize that chance to weaken your opponent.

Here are some helpful suggestions for a chess opening:

Begin with The Knight

a) Move your white knight to c3 or f3

b) Move your black knight to c6 or f6

c) Alternatively, move your white knight to d2 or e2

d) Alternatively, move your black knight to d7 or e7

In both numbers c and d, you will have to sacrifice both the kings and queens pawns. This move is mainly intended to develop your bishop.

You can follow these moves on the chessboard diagram below. The knights and the first moves' results are shown in blue, while the pawns to be sacrificed in the alternative moves are shown in red.

The tendency is to leave the queen to rest during the opening and only begin to move it after into the game. You also do not hasten to move your rooks at the beginning.

You Can Do a Fianchetto

What you do here is create room for your bishop to move to the 2nd rank and remain adjacent to your knight. Here is how you do it:

• g3

This means moving the knight pawn from g2 to g3. Note that you do not indicate any symbol when you are showing the movement of a pawn. However, when you are moving other pieces, you always indicate the particular piece's symbol before indicating the move.

In our case, when you move your knight pawn to g3, you create room for your bishop to move diagonally from f1 to g2. You demonstrate that maneuver as g3, then Bg2, of course, B being the bishop's symbol.

Let us go through the other symbols before proceeding, just to be sure we are picking the right symbol for each piece on the chessboard.