Fundamentals of Chess Openings, Qiyu Zhou (English)

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$ 29.90

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ChessBase

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ZOFCODIG

Openings may seem daunting, after all, with all the material out there on openings, what should you read or watch? Well, you can start with this DVD because I’ll teach you all about the basics which apply to practically every single opening! Have you ever wanted to learn openings without the hassle of memorizing variation after variation? Do you just want to understand why you make the moves you make? More

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CONTENTS

Introduction
Intro
Intro to development
Intro to center
Why you don’t move the queen a million times
Intro to king safety
Don’t neglect development
Why you should put development first
Pawn or development
Please develop!
How do we get a strong center?
Space with IQP (isolated queen pawn)
Control of center and then attack on flank
Another way of preventing castling
Open Games
Fried Liver Attack
Italian Game
Italian Game – Pianissimo
Spanish Basics
Spanish Basics 2
Spanish - Chigorin with d5
Spanish - Breyer
Spanish - 5.d3 - Intro
Spanish - Berlin Defence
Spanish - 5.d3
Spanish - 5.d3 d6
Spanish - 5.d3 b5
Semi-Open Games
Caro-Kann 1
Caro-Kann 2
French
French exchange variation
French advance variation
Sicilian
Introduction
Dragon - Intro
Dragon
Dragon - 9.Bc4
Dragon - 9.0-0-0
Dragon - 9.0-0-0 d5 10.Qe1
Dragon - 9.0-0-0 d5 10.exd5
Sveshnikov
Closed and Semi-Closed Games
Introduction
Queen's Gambit Declined 1
Queen's Gambit Declined 2
Queen's Gambit Declined 3
Semi-Slav
Nimzo-Indian Defence 1
Nimzo-Indian Defence 2
Nimzo-Indian Defence 3
Nimzo-Indian Defence 4
Queen's Indian Defence
Conclusion
Conclusion 1
Conclusion 2
Conclusion 3

PROPERTIES

Language:	English
Level:	beginner, advanced

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Minimum:	Computer: Dual Core Memory: 2 GB RAM Operating System: Windows 10 and higher Graphics Card: 256 MB RAM Other: Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation MacOSX: MacOS "Yosemite" 10.10
Recommended:	Processor: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore) Memory: 4 GB RAM Operating System: Windows 10 and higher, DirectX 11 Graphics Card: 512 MB RAM and more Other: DirectX10-compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11 and internet access for program activation
ChessBase Account:	Internet access and modern web browser, e.g. Chrome, Edge, Safari.

Parameters

Language	English
Level	Advanced, Beginner
Year	2020
Streaming	Yes
Author	Zhou, Qiyu