As the game developed, through the centuries, players andstudents of chess have developed several basic principles chessopening. These principles were developed with the aim of achieving certain specific strategic goals.It is of utmost importance that chess players keep these principlesin mind if they want to succeed in chess. Most standard bookopenings justify their moves according to these principles. So inaddition to being a necessary component of success, theseprinciples help us to understand the logic behind the openings andthus to fully appreciate and enjoy the games played by chessmasters at tournaments.Generally speaking the main strategic goals aimed at during theopening are; gaining control of the central squares, effective andquick development of chess pieces, creation of a strong pawnstructure without unnecessary weakening of the pawns, andensuring the safety of the King. Some students of the game pointout that broad opening aims of two sides can be slightly different;White aims to consolidate and augment the first move advantage,while Black will aims to even out that advantage.We will now look at each of the aims.Pieces placed on the central squares of the board (e4, e5, d4, andd5) can control and target larger number of squares than piecesplaced elsewhere. They also confer high mobility to pieces placedthere. In addition centrally placed pieces will cramp the mobility of the opponent. Due to these reasons players should take control of the center and while making room for their own pieces preventopposing pieces from doing the same. In most openings this isdone by advancing the central e and f pawns. Usually creating apawn center by placing pawns on e4 and d4 (or e5 and d5 byBlack) will allow the player to dictate how the game will proceed.However it is important that such a pawn center be adequatelydefended to gain the full benefit. The player who cannot establishsuch a center must try to undermine it. In some of the modernopenings Black aims create such undermining threats to thecenter from the first, instead of trying to establish or prevent apawn center as in more classical openings.Quick and effective development of chess pieces to their mosteffective positions during the opening is important because such