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screen if you have another opening move
to make. If the word
OPEN
does not
appear, you may continue normal play.
You have completed the training for that
opening line.
The names of the openings are:
1. Ruy Lopez, Open Defense
2. Ruy Lopez, Zaitsev Defense
3. Ruy Lopez, Exchange
4. Scotch Game
5. Scotch Four Knights
6. Giuoco Piano
7. Two Knights Defense
8. Four Knights
9. Petroff’s Defense
10. Sicilian Alapin Variation
11. Sicilian, Najdorf Variation
12. Sicilian, Dragon Variation
13. Sicilian, Keres Attack
14. Caro-Kann Defense
15. Panov-Botvinnik Attack
16. Caro-Kann Excahnge Variation
17. Queen’s Gambit Declined
18. Lasker Defense, Queen Gambit Declind
19. Queen Gambit Declined Exchange Var.
20. Slav Defense
21. Queen’s Gambit Accepted
22. Nimzo-Indian Defense, Classical Var.
23. Nimzo-Indian Defense, Rubinstein Var.
24. Semi-Slav Defense
25. Queen’s Indian Defense
26. Queen’s Indian Defense, Petrosian Var.
27. Bogolubow Indian Defense
28. Catalan
29. Gruenfeld Defense
30. King’s Indian Defense
31. Modern Benoni Defense
32. Benko Gambit
The moves and explanations of these famous
openings are given in many books on chess.
Entering Your Own Opening
Touch Chess also allows you to set up
any book opening you want—or even an
opening you invent—to practice. Press
the PLAYER key repeatedly to set play-
ers to 2. Then make moves for both sides
until the opening position you want to
practice is reached. Now repeatedly press
PLAYER again to set players to 1. Press
CLEAR and play against the computer in
this position.
Piece Training
There are five special mini-games. The
most famous and successful chess teach-
ers in the world take their beginning stu-
dents from the simple to the complex by
having them play "mini-games" of chess
that concentrate on just one or more types
of pieces. Even advanced players prac-
tice these basics, just as a concert pianist
continues to practice the scales so that
they remain second nature. Like any
great trainer, Touch Chess will play you
these special practice games.
First make sure you are at the start of a
game by pressing NEW GAME. Now
press OPTION until
TRAIN
is dis-
played. Then press the YES key. Now
press the figure (Queen, Rook, Bishop,
Knight, or Pawn) above the word TRAIN
of the mini-game you want to try. The
mini-games always include the king and
pawns for both sides. In fact, one mini-
game contains just this material (press
PAWN).