“Over the last 500 years or so, the best players in the world have work out the best ways to open a traditional game of Chess. All the good openings have names. Some are named after the people who played or wrote about them, some after a country where they were played, some have names which describe the opening in a particular way. By playing through the moves of famous openings, you can see how the plans and action of the middlegame are shaped by decisions taken in the early stages of the game.”