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.

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