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For new players of the chess game, learning numerous attacks, defenses, chess strategies, tactics, and variations of chess opening moves seem to be an impossible task. Learning many of those available opening lines is not only unnecessary for starters but can also be counter productive.

Instead of memorizing every chess openings you will encounter, you should learn first the basic principles of chess openings. These opening principles not only gives you a nice general guidelines on how to play the opening game of a chess but can also help you to create a more sensed opening advances.

The first chess opening principle is to control the center of the board game. The center, most particularly the squares of e4, d4, d5, and e5 are the most essential area of the chess board. The control of the center allows your chess pieces more mobility as well as a much easier access to any part of the board. The attacks in the center area prove to be the most effective also. These factors can often turn the opening game into a real fierce battle for the central control between the two opposing sides.

In the opening phase, keeping the king safe is very crucial so you need to keep that in mind. The weakened position of the king can directly lead to quick loses, or sometimes force us to sacrifice other chess piece just to keep our king from being targeted and checkmated. Just the same, when the opposing King looks vulnerable to you, it is very important to grab that opportunity before the opposing king can move into a more secured position. More often, these kinds of weaknesses can even result into quick checkmates.

The king’s safety is so essential that it is usually advisable to perform the castling early. A castled king is much safer that the king placed in the middle board. Moreover, castling avoid quick checkmates that are very annoying for beginner chess players. It is difficult to attack castled king.

Developing your chess pieces by bringing out the key chess pieces at the first rank is also advisable. It is very important to be able to develop your chess pieces quickly because the player who attained the quickest time to develop has better advantages because they can have a much better chances to attack and battle first. However adapting your movements with the movements of your opponent is vital too. While developing your own strategic plan, you should also be aware of what you opponent is planning so you can counter attack his or her play.

The freedom of the chess pieces to move is also related to development. In the opening game, it is very important to also allow the chess pieces to be able to move freely into the game. When the center pawns are blocked, it creates such difficulties in the proper development of the chess pieces. The chess pieces which are blocked and are not developed are just the same as the chess pieces in their initial position.