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There's no way around it—every chess game starts with the opening. These first few moves are crucial to determining how the rest of the game will go. Because of this, learning how to play the opening well can drastically improve your results! Here, you'll find the 10 best openings for beginners to play from the black side:
In this blog we will discuss 10 different opening systems for black: The video explaining all of these different chess systems in practice. Check it out and let me know what you think One of my most popular blogs was from nearly 2 years ago. In that blog I discussed 10 different opening systems for white...
Learn The King's Indian Attack And The Reti Opening. With the move, 1.Nf3 White typically aims for the King's Indian attack and an early kingside initiative. In the Reti White allows Black to build a big center and then aims to break it down.
When first introduced to the chess game, we start by learning the basic rules before moving on to learning opening principles, tactics, and complex strategies. The piece values and how they move should be second nature before you study more in-depth chess openings for Black. Later, you can learn the...
Declining the Queen’s Gambit is a response Black can make to White’s opening choice as follows: d4 d5 c4 e6 Credit: Simplify Chess The idea of the Queen’s Gambit for White is to temporarily sacrifice a pawn to ruin Black’s central control, and declining this gambit keeps a strong central position for Black. 3. Caro-Kann Defense
The opening that GM Hikaru Nakamura has used to perfection in Titled Tuesday and other blitz events. That doesn't mean that you will have the same results. 5. d6 (Pirc) On the borderline between A and B tier. We rank it here for a simple yet totally unfair reason: very many chess players can't pronounce it.
By now you've seen our ranking of every opening move and our ranking of every possible response by Black to 1.e4 from White. Naturally, here comes every possible response by Black to 1.d4 from White. As in the e4 article, moves are given with their names, but while 19 of the replies to e4 have one, only...
The Slav Defense is a very solid opening which defends the d5-pawn with another pawn. Most of Black's pieces can develop to natural squares, but Black will usually have a little less space and will have to find a good place for their b8-knight.
Explore over 3,000 opening chess lines, and find the perfect opening for you. Study relevant master games to help improve your opening game.
These openings come from the Chess.com Openings popular openings page. I ranked the openings from highest to lowest Black scoring percentage. Overall, Black scores 48% at what I call the club level (1000-2000 rating). These top openings all score well for Black. Check out the video to see some details on the openings.