Chess Opening Strategy

Opening Chess Strategies To Boost Your Game

Many comments have been made about the objectives of the opening
play and perhaps the best advice we've heard is the one about
being able to get to the middle game with a playable position.

This ideally means that you have your king safeguarded, your
pieces have decent mobility and scope, you also have sound pawn
structures, and you have opportunities to create real threats to
decisively win material or even cause a checkmate.

Most chess instructional books will list the following as
important opening concepts to achieve the above:-

- Controlling the Centre
- Develop your pieces
- Safeguarding your king, ideal defence, maintaining the
integrity of the castled king
- Hinder your opponent's attempts to do any/all of the above

The player who can get the job done quicker will usually be
rewarded with a superior middle game position. Tempi is
therefore a very critical factor in the opening. Every move
counts towards securing key positions, getting another piece
orchestrated into the attack and/or keeping the king out of
harm's way. Many less skilled players tend to overlook the
importance of this. So avoid making futile moves in the opening
or attacking too early without sufficient attacking pieces or
insufficient backup.


TEMPI is basically how to get there faster.
Some openings are deceptively passive and "quiet" favouring a
slow strategical battle and gradually building up tactical
opportunities which explodes later into the middle game. Some
others are aggressive and explosive very early in the game
abounding in tactical opportunities for both with lots of
threats and counter threats. And, yet others get very quickly
into the middle and the end game usually with a race for pawn
promotions determining the eventual winner.

Find an opening that suits your style of play and let it well.
Gambits and hypermodern openings are usually favoured by strong
tactical players as they often present many exciting tactical
opportunities. Always remember, different openings to suit
different style of play.

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