Andras Toth’s Chess Basics: Opening Strategy MoveTrainer® Strategy/Opening course by IM Andras Toth

If You Feel Unsure Whether
Your Chess Opening Moves
Are Any Good…

If you keep losing to early queen attacks — bishops pinning your knights — or annoying traps you know are bad…

If you want starter openings you can count on, up to 1000 rating and beyond…

Then step into Andras Toth’s Chess Basics: Opening Strategy.

This course lays out a clear pattern for playing the first 8 to 10 moves.

So not only you avoid the mistakes, which can ruin your game before it’s started. You also emerge from the opening with a full deck of active pieces. Ready to attack, defend, and hustle at your command.

Author International Master Andras Toth won Australia’s Chess Coach of the Year award in 2007.

He also won the Chessable Author of the Year award in 2021… earning high praise from over 1,500 Chessable members.

More than 20 years of teaching showed Toth the hurdles beginners face in the opening. And in this course…

Toth Gives You a Leg Up and
Primes You for Future Mastery

Let’s tour you around:

After the introduction, Toth narrows down the opening to two core goals. No lines to memorize nor puzzles to solve just yet. Only two goals to keep on top of your mind.

Then throughout the course…

He explains how to align your moves to these goals — to essentially guarantee a position you’d love to play.

One where your pawns and pieces protect each other, with plenty of space to move around.

Vivid examples illustrate:

✅ The stark contrast between good, natural moves and bad, unnatural moves…

✅ What a harmonious position looks like…

✅ The squares, lines, and diagonals both sides hustle for…

So you form a “mental image” of healthy opening positions and the many ways to reach them.

Chapters 4 to 9 expose the pitfalls new players fall for… plus proven techniques to exploit these same gaps in your games.

Discover:

✅ “The weak spot” and “the weak diagonal,” plus the winning tactics they lead to.

✅ How to punish early queen attacks… including the “perfect” counter to the Scholar’s Mate.

Never again will you fall for this crude checkmating
attack. Chapter 4 shows you a move-by-move,
piece-winning comeback

✅ The curse of the doggy ears. These moves seem to protect vital squares. But they only waste time and leave irreparable holes.

✅ And what knights need to succeed. Because without support, the knights suffer a butt-kicking from enemy pawns!

At this point in the course, your “eye” for good opening play has become sharper than ever. You can now see through the ideas behind the moves.

So in chapters 10 and 11, Toth lays down your first openings for Black and White.

No frills. Only 9 variations to study. And the moves grow on you fast, because they build on the strategy taught earlier.

A safe king, lead in development, and
a clear target — White clearly won the
opening and you will, too!

Guided by Toth, you can start any chess game against anyone with confidence. You can reach pleasant positions you’ll enjoy, game after game… because you know your goals in the opening and how to achieve them.

But don’t take our word for it.

Experience a huge leap in your chess, when you sign up for Andras Toth’s Chess Basics: Opening Strategy.