Description
The Opening Principles Every Chess Player Must Know. With 50 Exercises to Prove It.
IM Robert Ris delivers a complete introduction to chess opening strategy — covering the essential principles that guide every good opening, illustrated with clear examples and reinforced with 50 practical exercises.
What This Course Covers (4h 17min):
- Scholar's Mate — the most famous chess trap, and how to defend against it
- The Golden Rules of the Opening — development, centre control, and king safety
- The importance of the centre — what happens when you neglect it
- Why bringing the queen out early is usually wrong — and how to punish it
- The f-pawn as the Achilles heel — why moving it can lead to immediate catastrophe
- The bishop pin on the knight — how to exploit it and how to handle it
- What to do after applying opening principles — transitioning into the middlegame
- 50 exercises — practice applying the rules, with critical thinking required
A Fritz Trainer video course — ideal for beginners, improving players, and anyone who wants to build a solid opening foundation.
Learn the opening rules. Apply them. Win more games from the very first moves.