Carsten Hansen: Back to Basics: Chess openings

CarstenChess, paperback, Englisch, ISBN: 978-87-93812-75-8, 250 Seiten, 2021.

A comprehensive guide to chess Openings.

There are few things worse than starting a game of chess and before you get settled in, you are stuck with a bad position that has you on the heels for the rest of the game. This book will help you get off to a better start and select openings that suit your understanding and balance your chess studies.

Back to Basics: Openings will help you understand and play the openings in chess much, much better. It will also help balance your studies of openings, and give you a recipe as to how to obtain better results from your openings and how to approach a variety of situations relevant to our topic of openings.

The book covers critical concepts, including:
- Opening Principles
- How do I decide which Openingto Choose?
- An Introduction to opening Theory
- Opening traps
and much more

Carsten Hansen is Danish-American FIDE Master and FIDE Trainer, who has written extensively on all phases of the game but is particullary recognized for his thorough books on Chess Openings and tactical Manuals.