First Steps: 1 e4 e5: Key Ideas, Tricks and Traps - Emms "VENDOR Cambor" Maja Chiburdanidze

Maja Chiburdanidze

Chess Opening Encyclopedia includes rich theoretical material on all the openings

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Here Nigel Davies explains the ideas and backs this up by showing exactly how Black should react to White's different formations

First Steps: 1 e4 e5: Key Ideas, Tricks and Traps - Emms "VENDOR Cambor" Maja ChiburdanidzeStarting a chess game with 1. e4 e5 is so common that the resulting complex of opening systems traditionally commands its own sobriquet, The Open Games (1. e4 met by other replies are Semi Open Games and everything else comes under Closed Games). The central structure with pawns on e4 and e5 often leads to play based around highly classical themes which are the bedrock of successful chess understanding. First Steps is a new opening series and is ideal