The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: 1. c4 A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases...
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Opening is a chess opening named after Johannes Zukertort that begins with the move: 1. Nf3 Sometimes the name "Réti Opening" is used for the opening...
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The Durkin Opening (also known as the Durkin Attack or the Sodium Attack) is a rarely played chess opening that consists of the following move: 1. Na3...
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Many opening sequences, known as openings, have standard names such as "Sicilian Defense". The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and...
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The Réti Opening is a hypermodern chess opening whose "traditional" or "classic method" begins with the moves: 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 White attacks Black's pawn...
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The Amar Opening (also known as the Paris Opening, or the Drunken Knight Opening) is a chess opening defined by the move: 1. Nh3 Analogous to calling...
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King's Fianchetto Opening or Benko's Opening (also known as the Hungarian Opening, Barcza Opening, or Bilek Opening) is a chess opening characterized by...
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Opening (or the Dutch Attack) is a chess opening characterised by the move: 1. f4 Named after 19th century English player Henry Bird, Bird's opening is...
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The Barnes Opening (sometimes called Gedult's Opening) is a chess opening where White opens with: 1. f3 The opening is named after Thomas Wilson Barnes...
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English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on...
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The Sokolsky Opening, also known as the Orangutan and the Polish Opening, is an uncommon chess opening that begins with the move: 1. b4 According to various...
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The Rat Defense, English Rat is an irregular Queen's Pawn Game chess opening characterised by the initial moves: 1. d4 d6 2. c4 e5 The position can also...
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is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code classification system. The chess openings are categorised into...
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Dutch Defence (redirect from Dutch Opening)
The Dutch Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 f5 Black's 1...f5 stakes a claim to the e4-square and envisions an attack in the...
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Nimzowitsch–Larsen Attack (redirect from Larsen Opening)
the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings. The earliest master-level exponent of the Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack was the strong English amateur John Owen, who occasionally...
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The Catalan Opening is a chess opening where White plays d4 and c4 and fianchettoes the white bishop on g2. A common opening sequence is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4...
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Grob's Attack (redirect from Grob Opening)
Grob's Attack is an unconventional chess opening in which White begins with the move: 1. g4 Although it has a cult following, it is widely considered...
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The Despréz Opening, also called the Kadas Opening is a chess opening characterised by the opening move: 1.h4 The opening is named after the French player...
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Benoni Defence, Bird's Opening and English Opening. Irregular openings are usually considered somewhat weaker than standard openings if both players play...
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called the Heinrichsen Opening, Baltic Opening, Van Geet Opening, Sleipnir Opening, Kotrč's Opening, Meštrović Opening, Romanian Opening, Queen's Knight Attack...
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The Van 't Kruijs Opening (Dutch pronunciation: [vɑn ət ˈkrœys]) is a chess opening defined by the move: 1. e3 It is named after the Dutch player Maarten...
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Hedgehog (chess) (redirect from English Opening, Hedgehog Defense)
originally developed in the English Opening. The Hedgehog Defence, in particular, refers to a variation in the Symmetrical English (1.c4 c5) where Black adopts...
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Caro–Kann Defence (redirect from B17 (chess opening))
to describe chess moves. Mieses vs. Kann, Hamburg 1885 The opening is named after the English player Horatio Caro and the Austrian player Marcus Kann, both...
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trademark of Chess Informant. English Opening Benoni Defence Dutch Defence Réti Opening Benko Gambit Old Indian Defence Bird's Opening Anti-Indian systems (Trompowsky...
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The Ware Opening, also known as Meadow Hay Opening, is an uncommon chess opening for White beginning with the move: 1. a4 It is named after Preston Ware...
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includes an English version of the theme song that uses the second series opening lyrics, but the music is similar to the original opening. In this version...
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Modern Benoni (redirect from A79 (chess opening))
alternatives include 3.Nf3, typically transposing to a line of the English Opening, as well as 3.e3. Taking the pawn with 3.dxc5 is hardly ever seen,...
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Benoni Defense (redirect from A60 (chess opening))
Defense, or simply the Benoni, is a chess opening characterized by an early reply of ...c5 against White's opening move 1.d4. The original form of the Benoni...
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popularity as opening moves. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. 1.c4 – English Opening 1.Nf3 – Zukertort Opening– characteristically...
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The Bishop's Opening is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 White attacks Black's f7-square and prevents Black from advancing the...
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