Recognize 12 Open Game Chess Openings by Moves | Lesson 4


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This is Lesson 4 for beginners and intermediate players to learn chess openings. Today we will see the video to recognize 12 most common Open Game chess openings by their moves. The Open Game chess openings begin with 1. e4 e5, and they are always recommended to be first to learn.

There are 12 most common Open Games (chess openings): King's Gambit, Bishop's Opening, Latvian Gambit, Vienna Game, Center Game, Philidor Defense, Petrov Defense, Ruy Lopez, Italian Game, Scotch Game, Two Knights Defense, Four Knights Game. See the video below and learn to know Open Games...

Here is short description of the video. There are 12 Open Game chess openings. See and learn them by their first moves: King's Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4), Bishop's Opening (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4), Latvian Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Kf3 f5), Vienna Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3), Center Game (1.e4 e5 2.d4 ed 3.Qxd4), Philidor Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6),

Petrov Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6), Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5), Italian Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5), Scotch Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 ed), Two Knights Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6), Four Knights Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6). You can replay the below video to visually spot 12 Open Games...

To see a video about chess openings and to have good training on how to visually recognize 12 most popular Open Games by their moves, click the Play button below:



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This was Lesson 4 for chess beginners to learn chess openings. On this lesson, you have had a training to visually recognize 12 most common Open Games chess openings by their moves. The next lesson to see is Lesson 5 (Chess Quiz Number 1 to remember 12 Open Game chess openings by their initial positions)...