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Chess Opening Strategy Tips

List only opening strategy tips. (No middle game or end game tips)
Keep it short, clear and concise. (For future reference, please maintain the numbered sequence)

  1. Advance a pawn, that will help develop a bishop.
List only opening strategy tips. (No middle game or end game tips) Keep it short, clear and concise. (For future reference, please maintain the numbered sequence) 1. Advance a pawn, that will help develop a bishop.

me: play c4 ^^xD

me: play c4 ^^xD
  1. dont castle late dont castle too early
2. dont castle late dont castle too early
  1. Develop Knights before Bishops.
3. Develop Knights before Bishops.
  1. When a bishop is developed on its long diagonal (as opposed to a fianchetto) a pawn loses his defender.

I don't know if you can call that a tip.

4. When a bishop is developed on its long diagonal (as opposed to a fianchetto) a pawn loses his defender. I don't know if you can call that a tip.

@ruyrogers In an interview, the GM Nigel Short said:"I don't know why, but in my house I have a copy of "my system" in Lithuanian, and in Lithuanian it's better because I can't understand it"... That book is full of classic and old theory, nowadays people plays dinamic chess, and in my system there isn't dinamical chess because it's too old: it was written in 1925, but dinamic chess is born in 1938.

@ruyrogers In an interview, the GM Nigel Short said:"I don't know why, but in my house I have a copy of "my system" in Lithuanian, and in Lithuanian it's better because I can't understand it"... That book is full of classic and old theory, nowadays people plays dinamic chess, and in my system there isn't dinamical chess because it's too old: it was written in 1925, but dinamic chess is born in 1938.

@king04 that maybe true for the higher-rated player (like Nigel...) but for the lower-rated, it's a great start. Do you think a 1600 player needs to know (or even would understand) about dynamic versus classical chess? I also am not suggesting stopping reading at "My System"...

@king04 that maybe true for the higher-rated player (like Nigel...) but for the lower-rated, it's a great start. Do you think a 1600 player needs to know (or even would understand) about dynamic versus classical chess? I also am not suggesting stopping reading at "My System"...

@ruyrogers I don't know... The italian NM Giuseppe Tarascio says that it's exactly the contrary: he says that the <2000 FIDE rated mustn't read this book because there are a lot of topics that a <2000 player don't know how to manage well in different games, for example they block the pawn structure when it isn't useful... At the contrary, Dvoretsky, one of the best chess instructors, recommends my system to all their students, but they're at least CM, so they play chess really good and they know how to play in different situations. Anyway, every chess book give knowledges, so for a lichess player is a way good book, but it probably can change the way you understand a chess game...

@ruyrogers I don't know... The italian NM Giuseppe Tarascio says that it's exactly the contrary: he says that the <2000 FIDE rated mustn't read this book because there are a lot of topics that a <2000 player don't know how to manage well in different games, for example they block the pawn structure when it isn't useful... At the contrary, Dvoretsky, one of the best chess instructors, recommends my system to all their students, but they're at least CM, so they play chess really good and they know how to play in different situations. Anyway, every chess book give knowledges, so for a lichess player is a way good book, but it probably can change the way you understand a chess game...

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