Eighteenth century chess player François-André Danican Philidor advocated this opening in contrast to 2 … Nc6. Currently it is not a popular opening and is perceived as a cramping and inert defensi...
As the game developed, through the centuries, players and students of chess have developed several basic principles chess opening. These principles were developed with the aim of achieving certain ...
Queen's Gambit Accepted which usually referred to by abbreviation QGA, unsurprisingly has a long history since Queen's Gambit openings have been around since fifteenth century at least. It is the t...
Queens' Gambit has a long history. It is mentioned in a German manuscript in 1490 and Luis Ramirez Lucena mentioned it in 1497. However it was not popular in nineteenth century but became so after ...