Nimzowitsch-Larsen is a chess opening that starts with the moves 1. b3, or 1. Nf3 followed by 2.b3. It is named after two Grandmasters, Aron Nimzowitsch and Bent Larsen. The opening involves a ...

Most books on opening moves provide streams of variations or focus solely on variants of one opening but Hertan’s offering, “Basic Chess Openings for Kids, Play Like a Winner from Move One ...

That’s part of Eugene Brown’s basic approach to every chess game he plays. The 68-year-old Washington, D.C. man learned the strategy playing the game in prison.

The basic assumption: if a particular opening game is played by many people, it is likely to be rather easy. So, they examined which opening games were played the most and who played them.