From Mark Weeks,
Your Guide to Chess.
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Step through the moves to reach the best known and most popular openings. Either start here...

• Initial position
• 1.d4
• 1.e4

...or, jump immediately to a specific opening by position or name...

• Chess Openings at a Glance presents small diagrams of the most common opening positions. Click on any small diagram for a larger diagram and the moves of that opening. Under the larger diagram find a link to the Introduction for the opening.

  The same openings can be browsed using a Text Index without diagrams.

...Once you locate a specific opening, you can see our recommended continuations.