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This is Lesson 5 to learn chess opening, and this lesson is designed mainly for chess beginners. On this lesson, you will have a training to recognize the Open Games chess openings by their initial positions. The training is provided by a chess video below to quickly spot 12 most common Open Games.
Test yourself and try to spot the following 12 Open Games chess openings by their initial positions, namely: 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, and Four Knights Game...
The Open Games are the chess openings that start with 1. e4 e5. The Open Game openings are always recommended for chess beginners to be studied first... Here is a short description of the video below: The video proceeds for 3 min. 17 sec. It shows the initial positions of 12 Open Game chess openings, one by one.
First see an opening position to try to spot the name of an Open Game chess opening, and then see the correct answer (is it a Ruy Lopez or, for example, Italian Game?)... To see Lesson 5 which is Chess Openings Quiz Number 1 on 12 most common Open Games, click the Play button below:
All lessons about chess openings are designed for beginners and intermediate chess players. They are available via text, video, PDF ebooks and PGN files (using PGN file you can see and replay chess games recorded inside the PGN file via a PGN Viewer program -- PGN files and PGN Viewer program can be downloaded on this site).
To find more links on chess-openings-for-beginners.blogspot.com:
• Chess Openings for Beginners - See All Links
To download PDF ebook to learn the first moves of 32 chess openings:
• Download PDF eBook Chess Opening Puzzles, 128 KB
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You can also visit another site at Chess Videos Blog.
This was Lesson 5 to learn chess openings, and it was designed mainly for chess beginners. The lesson was intended to provide you with a short video training to recognize 12 most common Open Games chess openings by their initial positions. The next lesson to see is Lesson 6 (Recognize Semi-Open Games) ...
