The hub of chess openings: Your one stop reference guide to opening strategies in Chess.

The fate of any game of chess at any level is often determined by the first few moves. Will the game be a tough, tactical, and dynamic battle? Or will it be a quiet, slow, controlled, positional game?

Or will it be somewhere in between?

Your choice of opening moves has a large impact on the rest of the game, even on the outcome in most, if not all, cases. From Open to Semi-open, Flanks to Reverse Openings, Classical to Hypermodern, there is so much to learn about chess openings that thousands of books have been written and published on this topic.

Complete Guides

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    Goring Gambit
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    The Scotch Game
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    The Vienna Game
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    Four Knights Game
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    Cochrane Gambit
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    Chigorin Defense
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    Hungarian Defense
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    The Sicilian Defense
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    Berlin Defense
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    The Caro Kann Defense
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    Apocalypse Attack
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    Baltic Defense Chess Opening
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    The French Defense
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    Catalan Opening
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    The Slav Defense
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    The Queen’s Gambit
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    Nimzo Indian Defense
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    Petrov Defense
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    King’s Indian Defense
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    The Réti Opening
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    The English Opening
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    Italian Game Opening
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    Ruy Lopez Opening

Guides on Variations

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    Closed Sicilian – A Scholarly Study Guide
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    Sicilian Kramnik Variation – Learn Everything
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    Sicilian English Attack – An In-depth Tutorial
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    Sicilian Defense Canal Attack – A Study Guide
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    Sicilian Defense Drazic Variation – A Learner’s Guide
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    Sicilian Najdorf – How to Play, Attack and Counter
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    Sicilian Defense – Accelerated Dragon
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    Sicilian Defense – Alapin Variation

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    Why Begin a Game with a Center Pawn (King’s Pawn)?
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    Is the Caro Kann Opening More Drawish?
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    Why is the Sicilian Defense So Popular?

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