Chess Openings For Dummies 1st Edition (2010) (PDF) by James Eade

Description

You never get a second chance to make a first impression especially in the game of chess! Chess Openings For Dummies gives you tips and techniques for analyzing openings and strategies for winning chess games from the very first move you make!

This friendly, helpful guide provides you with easy-to-follow and step-by-step instructions on the top opening chess strategies and gives you the tools you need to develop your own line of attack from the very start.

Includes illustrations to help ensure victory
Equips you with the tools and strategies to plan a winning strategy
Also serves as a valuable resource for curriculums that use chess as a learning tool
Whether you’re a veteran or novice chess player, Chess Openings For Dummies is the ultimate guide to getting a grip on the openings and variants that will ensure you have all the right moves to open and win any chess game.

User’s Reviews

From the Inside Flap Learn to: Plan a winning strategy from the first move you make Analyze your opponent’s opening Improve your game with tips and strategies Ensure victory with helpful diagrams The fast and easy way to improve your chess game You never get a second chance to make a first impression — especially in the game of chess! By using specific examples, detailed explanations, and diagrams, this friendly guide gives you tips and techniques for analyzing openings and developing strategies that will help you win any chess game . . . from the very first move you make! Chess openings 101 — understand what an opening is, how they’re classified, and how they differ from one another Keep an open mind — get a grip on what it means to play an open game and how it allows for speedy mobilization of your pieces Get down and dirty — discover how to play a semi-open game and shake things up by pulling out your best defensive moves Close in on a win — learn how to maneuver your pieces to the right spot and plan long-range strategies to conquer in a closed game Advance your game — take your skills to the next level with the English, Reti, and other flank openings that give you flexibility in responding to your opponent’s moves Open the book and find: How to seize space and limit your opponent’s options Coverage of popular openings, including the Ruy Lopez, the Sicilian, and the King’s Indian Openings featuring rapid piece development What it means to play open, semi-open, and closed games Openings that fit your style of play Ten common mistakes to avoid in the opening –This text refers to the paperback edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I’ve wasted enough time on this book, so I’ll keep this short. If you’re a beginner, you won’t find much to help you in understanding the pros and cons of various openings. And, if you’re more experienced, for a variety of Open, Semi-Open, Closed, Semi-Closed and Flank Openings, the author provides a move by move rendering of games using various openings (one for a White win; one for a Black win). If you think studying these games will foster a deeper understanding of the openings, you’ll be upset when you discover errors (not chess mistakes) in the game listing. I studied two games for two openings and found moves that were impossible (erroneous notation) and Black moves omitted after White moves listed. Try following a game when you don’t know what Black’s move was! Isn’t chess supposed to be about precision? I’m wasting no more time on this book.

⭐ I loved the author’s first book, but this one relies primarily on chess notation with few images, so I need to get the board out when 20 moves are merely notated (Qxf3 Rxf3+ Kg2 Rg3+, etc.). I think more images and less notation would have made this book an easier read. Very comprehensive though, and perfect for the advanced chess wonk.

⭐ This is not one of the better opening tools/books. Perhaps if it was in book form I could just open it quickly. The example games are in algebraic notation, which is fine, but hard to picture and the diagrams after 10 moves or so don’t help that much. If you are going to use a phone or iPad to read this, you might as well use a tool that allows animation and exploration on a virtual chess board. I was hoping for more insights as a beginner, but I didn’t really get that either. I did not even consider reading on my small and slow kindle. Jumping to the opening as a reference would not be a strong suit of the kindle. And I love kindle books… but we all know it isn’t best for all content.

⭐ I love this book. Great for beginners, intermediate players and maybe even advanced(?).Openings (and the reasons behind them), open, closed, semi-closed games and otheruseful information is explained in a simple, straight forward way that I found veryinteresting and informative. One of the few chess books I’ve read that didn’t make mewant to nap after a few pages of endless notation. Recommend.

⭐ A very enjoyable chess book to read and study for beginners and even for those who used to play but haven’t for a long time. Great for getting older players back into the game. Don’t let the “Dummies” title fool you–I stopped playing 30 years ago and found this book very helpful to gently kick-start me back into playing recently.

⭐ Learning chess openings is not quick or easy. However, this book does simplify a complex subject and organizes it into a manageable process. The book does not take any of the work out of learning how to use chess openings effectively. What it does is to engage you step by step to help you stick with it and not give up. It also allows you to jump around the book so that you don’t have to master e4, etc. before trying something totally different. I gave it four stars. As much as I would like it to it’s not going to do the work for me, so I will reserve the five star for a book that does.

⭐ Good info. I hadn’t played in a while and the book help mePlay better

⭐ For the beginner and the intermediate player, this is the best chess opening bookbook on the market. This is the only book that clearly helps you choose the best type of opening foryour style of play. He uses a symbol, “Who Should Use It” for each opening in thebook. Next to the symbol he describes what type of player should use the opening. Many openings are presented — 343 pages. As a result, pawn to Q4 is bestfor me. He also gives useful strategy tips. The material is clearly taught and well organized. Don’t let the titlefool you into thinking that it’s a book for bad players. Finally, each opening has the game moves for when white wins and when blackwins. Thus offense and defense are both presented. Check this book out. It’s got a lot to offer.

⭐ I am not that advanced in Chess skill, but this book can be a bit deceiving. While trying to follow games via the chess notation I seemed to get lost… even when playing them out on a nearby board I found myself multiple times just completely losing the flow… within games the author will side track to a “what if” scenario and some of the formatting for this was tough for me.I enjoyed the layout of the book and you do find yourself finding a fondness for a certain style, which the author sort of says is the goal… so for this it is a solid book.

⭐ This book contains great strategies to master the highly demanding game of chess.

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