This book covers the chess openings in a very original and very effective way. The era of books 200 pages long to explain a single opening is over! In this book, no less than 21 openings are explained to you. The tools provided in this book will allow you to learn and experience very easily the most common openings. The variants and sub-variants can be viewed at a glance as well as their traps. Learning the chess openings has never been so accessible. This book will become for you a real workout partner. A tree opening is descriptive of an opening with its variations and sub-variations. The chess trees of this book offer an original method to approach chess openings. They allow you to learn the openings in a clear, entertaining and motivating way. You can quickly reproduce them on the board to assimilate them easily. Using this powerful tool, you will be reconciled with chess theory. Openings have never been easier to understand! Table of contents Preamble Chapter I - Tactics and strategy openings Overview The different types of games The principles of development Chapter II - Chess Trees Presentation Algebraic chess notation Key for chess trees Open games Semi-open games Closed games Semi-closed games Chapter III - Open games 1.e4 e5 Italian game Two knights defense Scotch game Spanish game Morphy defense Vienna game King's gambit Parham attack Chapter IV - Semi-open games 1. e4 ... all but e5 Alekhine defense French defense Caro-Kann defense Pirc defense Sicilian defense Chapter V - Closed games 1. d4 d5 Queen's pawn game (all but 2. c4 ...) Queen's gambit (2. c4 ...) Chapter VI - Semi-closed games 1. d4 ... all but d5 East Indian defense Indian defense - Modern variation Catalan opening Nimzo-Indian defense Budapest gambit Dutch defense