Piece Training, Entering Your Own Opening

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).