Prinsip2 umum Opening

– Aktivasi buah catur

– Kontrol (<> menempati) petak pusat
– Amankan raja.
 Prinsip Aktivasi Buah catur
• Usahakan tidak terlalu banyak menjalankan buah catur yang sama dalam
opening. Kalau memungkinkan, sekali saja cukup.
• Tempatkan benteng/gajah di jalur/diagonal terbuka, atau jalur/diagonal
yang nantinya akan kita buka.
• Buatlah langkah dobrakan dengan pion, dengan tujuan untuk melemahkan
struktur pion musuh, dan/atau membuka lajur/diagonal bagi perwira.
• Umumnya, pada satu sayap, kuda dikembangkan lebih dahulu daripada
gajah
• Gerakkan 3-4 pion pada tahap pembukaan untuk membuka jalan atau
menguasai petak pusat.
• Sebisa mungkin jangan keluarkan menteri terlalu awal.
• Jangan tempatkan kuda di sudut, kecuali jika nantinya jelas akan berpindah
ke tengah dari petak tersebut.
 Prinsip kontrol petak pusat
• Kembangkan perwira ke arah petak
pusat/menguasai petak pusat
• Setidaknya gunakan 1 pion untuk menguasai
petak pusat
• Menguasai petak pusat dan menduduki petak
pusat adalah 2 hal yang berbeda.
 Prinsip Pengamanan raja
Rokade umumnya perlu, pilihlah sayap rokade
yang aman, biasanya rokade pendek.
Tidak wajib rokade jika menteri sudah tertukar
di opening
Jangan terlalu banyak memajukan pion sayap
rokade raja jika tidak perlu
 Kapan tidak mesti rokade?
• Jika menteri sudah tertukar di opening
• Jika kedua sayap terbuka sementara di tengah
relatif lebih aman
• Jika struktur bidak pusat tertutup/mampat
 Break moves
• Tujuan break moves :
– Membuka jalur/diagonal
– Memberi ruang untuk perwira
– Melemahkan struktur pion lawan
• Early Arabic literature
• During the Islamic Golden Age, many works on shatranj were written, recording for the first
time the analysis of opening moves, game problems, the knight's tour, and many more
subjects common in modern chess books. Many of these manuscripts are missing, but their
content is known due to compilation work done by the later authors.[3]
• The earliest listing of works on chess is in the Fihrist, a general bibliography produced in
377 AH (988 AD) by Ibn al-Nadim.[12][13] It includes an entire section on the topic of chess,
listing:
• Al-Adli's Kitab ash-shatranj ('Book of Chess')
• Ar-Razi's Latif fi 'sh-shatranj ('Fun with Chess')
• As-Suli's Kitab ash-shatranj (two volumes)
• Al-Lajlaj's Kitab mansubat ash-shatranj ('Book: Strategies of Chess')
• B. Aluqlidisi's Kitab majmu' fi mansubat ash-shatranj ('Book: Intent of Strategies of Chess')
• There is a passage referring to chess in a work said to be by al-Hasan al-Basri, a philosopher
from Basra who died in 728 AD.[citation needed] The attribution of authorship is dubious, however.
• During the reign of the Arab caliphs, shatranj players of highest class were called
aliyat or grandees.[3] There were only a few players in this category including:
• Jabir al-Kufi, Rabrab and Abun-Naam were three aliyat players during the rule of
caliph al-Ma'mun.
• Al-Adli was the strongest player during the rule of caliph al-Wathiq. At this time
he was the only player in aliyat category.
• Ar-Razi (Persian polymath) in 847 won a match against an already old al-Adli in
the presence of caliph al-Mutawakkil and so become a player of aliyat category.
• As-Suli was the strongest player during the reign of caliph al-Muktafi. Ar-Razi
was already dead and there were no players of comparable strength before as-
Suli appeared on the scene. In the presence of al-Muktafi he easily won a match
against a certain al-Mawardi and thus proved that he was the best player of that
time. As-Suli considered Rabrab and ar-Razi as the greatest of his predecessors.
• Al-Lajlaj was a pupil of as-Suli and also a great shatranj master of his time.