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sodium-attack-play
02 Chess openings ♟️
Alberto Chueca

The Questionable Sodium Attack

Sodium Attack

The Sodium attack is one of those openings that will give you a lot to talk about, unfortunately not for good. The Sodium attack is a very weird opening that has rarely been playing and is interesting to see it.

Normally, we always keep the transparency first when analyzing opening, talking about the relativity of chess practically makes every move playable. This applies to chess between two kinds that barely know how to move the pieces.

But if you want to study the Sodium attack as an opening to use and get some advantage I would recommend you … Read more

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02 Chess openings ♟️
Alberto Chueca

The Excellent Trompowski Attack

Trompowski attack

The Trompowski attack is an aggressive way to play for white in the queen’s gambit. This opening tries to put pressure as fast as possible in the opponent’s kingside and tries to get initiative fast.

The Trompowski attack used to be pretty popular in its days, but black has developed many weapons to fight the Trompowski. Even if black can fight it better, is still a good choice to play, and white can get really good positions out of this.

Also, black has to be prepared to face the Trompowski attack, because some key moves are not that … Read more

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02 Chess openings ♟️
Alberto Chueca

Play The Spanish Opening Exchange Variation

Spanish opening exchange variation

The Spanish opening is one of the most solid options for masters all over the world, today we will see the Spanish opening exchange variation. It has been an opening that gave the greatest results to the greatest masters of all time, included Bobby Fischer, Magnus Carlsen, and many others.

Despite its simplicity, the Spanish opening counts with excellent weapons to get a good advantage in the game of chess. There is lots of theory about the Spanish opening and its variations because of how often it is played.

The Spanish opening exchange variation in special … Read more

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02 Chess openings ♟️
Alberto Chueca

Play The Active Tarrash Defense!

The Tarrash defense

The Tarrash defense is an interesting way to defend in the Queen’s gambit, and although old, is a line that has its ideas. The Tarrash defense was introduced by the master with the same name Siegbert Tarrash, one of the greatest chess players of all time.

He had some interesting active ideas attacking white’s center really fast in the opening. In its time, it was a very popular way to fight the queen’s gambit, because it gave really good results.

The Tarrash defense was somewhat of a savior in those times. Before this defense was introduced, all … Read more

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Philidor-defense-play
02 Chess openings ♟️
Alberto Chueca

The Amazing Philidor Defense!

Philidor opening

The Philidor opening is one of the most interesting king’s pawn openings there are. Nowadays, the Philidor defense is not played too often, because of the more famous moves Nf6 or Nc6.

But the Philidor opening hasn’t lost any value in chess, it still offers good play for black. You can only see the potential of this defense if you know the ideas, and that’s what we will analyze today.

The Philidor was very popular in the old school chess, the idea of this opening is to get a solid system with black. Black will try to hold … Read more

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pirc-defense
02 Chess openings ♟️
Alberto Chueca

The Interesting Pirc Defense!

The Pirc Defense

The Pirc Defense is a hyper-modern opening for black, which plays with interesting ideas, and plans. Many important grandmasters have used it, like Viktor Korchnoi against Bobby Fischer.

But what makes the Pirc defense special is the opportunities it gives to black to counterattack. The thing is that this opening is not an easy one, and black has to play smartly to win with it.

That is why today we will be looking at the main ideas and lines that you can use in the Pirc defense. The Pirc defense has a structure that is very solid … Read more

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The Brutal Blackmar Diemer Gambit

Blackmar Diemer gambit

The Blackmar Diemer gambit is an interesting opening in which we sacrifice a pawn for development advantage. Of course, you can get other advantages too, but the main objective is to get black attacked fast.

Different from other gambits that we have covered so far, the Blackmar Diemer gambit is not as risky as other options. And, in most cases, you will have either your pawn back or some compensation for the material.

The Blackmar Diemer gambit can provide you many chances of winning, but you need to play your cards right. Also, we could say this … Read more

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02 Chess openings ♟️
Alberto Chueca

The Amazing Ware Opening!

The Ware opening

The ware opening is an interesting approach to the opening, one of those rare moves that we wouldn’t recommend to anyone. However, it has interesting ideas, and you might for them, even if you think the opening is simply bad.

The opening choice is something the chess players definitely gives too much attention to, but is interesting. This is what grandmasters sometimes take advantage from and play weird openings that will allow them to confuse their rivals.

It’s interesting that I am here telling you not to play the ware opening when a grandmaster like Magnus Carlsen … Read more

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Kadas-opening
02 Chess openings ♟️
Alberto Chueca

The Impressive Kadas Opening

Kadas opening

The Kadas opening is an interesting and very questionable opening that will surely make you cringe. The thing is that it breaks all of the opening principles in chess, already in move one!

But the Kadas opening is not simply a blunder, you have to know that chess is very relative, like everything in life. Many conditions take part in the game of chess, even the clock, which doesn’t even have to do with chess essentially.

The point is the Kadas opening starts with an objectively bad move with white, but is still not clear how black is … Read more

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02 Chess openings ♟️
Alberto Chueca

Play The Aggressive Englund Gambit!

Englund Gambit

The Englund Gambit is an interesting opening that black can use to face white’s queen pawn. It’s similar to the Budapest gambit with certain differences, the opening is really unusual to see at the top level.

Playing the Englund gambit can take you into interesting tactical lines out of a queen’s pawn opening. This is really convenient if you want to take your opponent out of his playstyle and opening regular theory.

Although the Englund gambit may seem weird at the beginning it can be a really good weapon. It’s pretty much the same history as other rare … Read more

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