Fundamentals of Chess Opening By Qiyu Zhou

Openings may seem daunting, after all, with all the material out there on openings, what should you read or watch? Well, you can start with this because I’ll teach you all about the basics which apply to practically every single opening! Have you ever wanted to learn openings without the hassle of memorizing variation after variation? Do you just want to understand why you make the moves you make?

Then this is for you! Starting out in chess is difficult, and this aims to reduce that stress. Designed for beginner levels in openings, I hope to give a brief introduction to the reasons we play some of the most common moves in popular openings like the Spanish and Sicilian. Focusing exclusively on the two most popular first moves, 1. e4 and 1.d4 openings, this can be used for both white and black. Aside from covering specific variations, I have also included the basic rules of openings we should all follow, such as controlling the center, developing towards the center, and much more!

• Video running time: 5 hours 50 minutes (English)
• Further Training chapter with repertoire feature

1. Introduction
2. Intro
3. Intro to development
4. Intro to center
5. Why you don’t move the queen a million times
6. Intro to king safety
7. Don’t neglect development
8. Why you should put development first
9. Pawn or development
10. Please develop!
11. How do we get a strong center?
12. Space with IQP (isolated queen pawn)
13. Control of center and then attack on flank
14. Another way of preventing castling
15. Open Games
16. Fried Liver Attack
17. Italian Game
18. Italian Game – Pianissimo
19. Spanish Basics
20. Spanish Basics 2
21. Spanish - Chigorin with d5
22. Spanish - Breyer
23. Spanish - 5.d3 - Intro
24. Spanish - Berlin Defence
25. Spanish - 5.d3
26. Spanish - 5.d3 d6
27. Spanish - 5.d3 b5
28. Semi-Open Games
29. Caro-Kann 1
30. Caro-Kann 2
31. French
32. French exchange variation
33. French advance variation
34. Sicilian
35. Introduction
36. Dragon - Intro
37. Dragon
38. Dragon - 9.Bc4
39. Dragon - 9.0-0-0
40. Dragon - 9.0-0-0 d5 10.Qe1
41. Dragon - 9.0-0-0 d5 10.exd5
42. Sveshnikov
43. Closed and Semi-Closed Games
44. Introduction
45. Queen's Gambit Declined 1
46. Queen's Gambit Declined 2
47. Queen's Gambit Declined 3
48. Semi-Slav
49. Nimzo-Indian Defence 1
50. Nimzo-Indian Defence 2
51. Nimzo-Indian Defence 3
52. Nimzo-Indian Defence 4
53. Queen's Indian Defence
54. Conclusion
55. Conclusion 1
56. Conclusion 2
57. Conclusion 3