Chess Book for Beginners.

✍ Scribed by Crossman, Carlos

• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 423
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Chess notation
Basic Information: battlefield, figures, and rules
Chess Board
Diagonals
Figures
King
Rook
Bishop
Queen
Knight
Pawn
Check & Checkmate
Check
Checkmate
Draw
Matting (checkmate) the lonely King
Queen’s checkmate
Matting (checkmate) with Rooks
Checkmate with two bishops
Rook checkmate
Bishop and Knight Checkmate
Modules of the chess game
Areas
Force
Growth
Specific rules
Taking on a pass
Transformation
Castling
Stalemate
Opening: Basic principles and types
Traditional principles of openings
Fight for the center
Fastest development
Quick Castling
Knights before bishops
Modern principles of openings
Initiative
Counterplay
Sacrifices of positioning
Open game
Spanish game
Spanish Game: Open version
Spanish game: Defense of Berlin
Italian game
Italian Game: Evans Gambit
Defense by two knights
Russian game: defense of Petrov
King’s Gambit
Vienna Game
Philidor Defense
Danish Gambit
Scottish Game
Opening by four Knights
Semi-open Openings
Sicilian Defense
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation
Sicilian defense: Alapin Variation
French defense
French defense: Winawer Variation
French defense: Tarrasch Variation
Caro-Kann Defense
Alekhine’s defense
Pirc-Ufimtsev defense
Closed Openings
Queen’s Gambit
Refuse of Queen’s Gambit: Change Option
Refused Queen’s Gambit: Tarrasch defense
Accepted Queen’s Gambit
Slavic Defense
New Indian Defense
Nimzowitch Defense
Old Indian Defense
Old Indian Defense: Jewish Variation
Grunfeld Defense
Benoni defense
Chigorin Defense
Dutch Defense
Dutch Defense: Stonewall Variation
Flank Openings
English Opening
Reti Opening
Orangutan Opening
Bird Opening
Checkmate: Main types
Checkmate at the last horizontal
Stale checkmate
Queen and pawn checkmate
Damiano’s checkmate
Queen and knight’s checkmate
Queen and bishop checkmate
Checkmate with two rooks
Rook and Bishop checkmate
Rook and knight checkmate
Legal Checkmate
Greco Checkmate
Boden checkmate
Center and flags
Center
Open center
Closed Center
Partially blocked center
Strain at the center
Classical center
Small center
Hedgehog
The Maroczy Bind
Figurative pressure
Flags
Counterstrike
Early flank attacks
Castling on one flank
Castling on different flanks
Tactic
Basic tactic techniques
Binder
Fork
End-to-end hit
Open Attack
Open Check
Double Check
Sacrifices
Classical Sacrifice
Lasker’s sacrifice
Positional Sacrifice
Combinational Sacrifice
Queen’s Sacrifice
Combinations
Diversion
Destroying the defender
Overloading
Engaging
Blocking
Windmill
X-ray
Zwischenzug
Positional factors
Open lines
Double rooks
Constructed shapes
7th horizontal
Window
The advantage of two bishops
Blockage
Bad Bishop
Key Fields
Pawns
Pawn Structures
Fianchetto
Old Indian Structure
Dragon Structure
Stonewall
Double Stonewall
French structure
Closed English Structure
Scheveningen Variation
Queen’s Gambit Declined
Minority Pawn Attack
Strengths and Weaknesses
Pawn Chains
Pawn Islands
Pawn Majority
Passed Pawn
Isolated Pawns
Backward Pawns
Double Pawns
Built Pawns
Endgame
Active King
Zugzwang
Pawn Endings
The rule of the square
The King Helps the Pawn
Opposition
Forced Move
Heavy Piece Endgame
Queen’s Endgame
Queen Against Rooks
Rook against Pawns
Rook and Pawn Endgames
Rook and Pawn Against Rook
Pawn on the 7th horizontal
Rook and some Pawns
Bishop Endgames
Bishop vs. Pawns
Bad Bishop
Knight Endgames
Knight and Pawn
Knight vs. Pawns
Knight and Rook Pawns
Knight and Pawn vs Knight
Bishop Endgames vs Knight Endgames
Knight and Pawn against Bishop
Bishop and Pawn against Knight
Two Bishops
Exchange and Swap
Rook vs Bishop
Rook vs Knight
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