Avoid disaster in the opening

Having barely learned the basis of the game of chess, every player will notice that the moves in the opening most often predetermine the course of the game, and in some case its outcome.
A chess game, to a certain extent, is similar to military combat, where lot depends not only on the technical abilities and the equipment of the troops, but the ability of the commanders to force the contour of the forthcoming battle and deploy troops accordingly, in order to commit them in due time, and in the most favorable sequence. It for this reason, every player, who directs the action of his wooden troops, ought to know the basic game in the opening.