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52 relations: Adolf Anderssen, Alexander Wagner, András Adorján, Andrew Soltis, Aron Nimzowitsch, Benko Gambit, Bent Larsen, Checkmate, Chess opening, Chessgames.com, Correspondence chess, David Vincent Hooper, Deutsche Schachzeitung, Dutch Defence, Edward Winter (chess historian), Elijah Williams (chess player), Emanuel Lasker, Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, English Opening, Fianchetto, FIDE titles, First-move advantage in chess, Flank opening, Grandmaster (chess), Henrik Danielsen, Henry Bird (chess player), Hereford Times, Ken Whyld, King (chess), King's Fianchetto Opening, King's Gambit, King's Pawn Game, List of chess openings, List of chess openings named after people, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Martin Severin From, Mikhail Gurevich (chess player), Modern Defense, Nick de Firmian, Pawn structure, Polish Defense, Queen's Pawn Game, Richard Palliser, Savielly Tartakower, Scandinavian Defense, Sicilian Defence, Stonewall Attack, The Oxford Companion to Chess, Transposition (chess), ..., World Chess Championship, Zukertort Opening. Expand index (2 more) »
Adolf Anderssen
Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 – March 13, 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Alexander Wagner
Alexander (Aleksander) Wagner (7 August 1868 – 1942) was a Polish chess correspondence master and theoretician.
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András Adorján
András Adorján (born András Jocha, 31 March 1950, Budapest) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster (1973) and author.
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Andrew Soltis
Andrew Eden Soltis (born May 28, 1947 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania) is an American chess grandmaster, author and columnist.
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Aron Nimzowitsch
Aron Nimzowitsch (Ārons Nimcovičs, Аро́н Иса́евич Нимцо́вич, Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich; born Aron Niemzowitsch; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess grandmaster and influential chess writer.
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Benko Gambit
The Benko Gambit (or Volga Gambit) is a chess opening characterised by the move 3...b5 in the Benoni Defence arising after: The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings has three codes for the Benko Gambit.
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Bent Larsen
Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 19359 September 2010) was a Danish chess grandmaster and author.
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Checkmate
Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is a game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with) and there is no way to remove the threat.
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Chess opening
A chess opening or simply an opening refers to the initial moves of a chess game.
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Chessgames.com
Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members.
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Correspondence chess
Correspondence chess is chess or variant chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, often through a correspondence chess server, a public internet chess forum, email, or the postal system.
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David Vincent Hooper
David Vincent Hooper (31 August 1915 – May 1998), born in Reigate, was a British chess player and writer.
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Deutsche Schachzeitung
Deutsche Schachzeitung (English: "German Chess Paper") was the first German chess magazine.
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Dutch Defence
The Dutch Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: Black's 1...f5 stakes a serious claim to the e4-square and envisions an attack in the middlegame on White's; however, it also weakens Black's kingside some (especially the e8–h5 diagonal) and contributes nothing to Black's development.
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Edward Winter (chess historian)
Edward Winter (born 1955) is an English chess journalist, archivist, historian, collector and author.
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Elijah Williams (chess player)
Elijah Williams (7 October 1809 – 8 September 1854) was an eminent British chess player of the mid-19th century.
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Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years (from 1894 to 1921).
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Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings
The Encyclopedia of Chess Openings is a classification system for the opening moves in chess.
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English Opening
The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases, anywhere from one of the two most successful to the fourth most successful of White's twenty possible first moves.
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Fianchetto
In chess, the fianchetto ("little flank") is a pattern of development wherein a bishop is developed to the second rank of the adjacent knight file, the knight pawn having been moved one or two squares forward.
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FIDE titles
The World Chess Federation, FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), awards several performance-based titles to chess players, up to and including the highly prized Grandmaster title.
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First-move advantage in chess
The first-move advantage in chess is the inherent advantage of the player (White) who makes the first move in chess.
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Flank opening
A flank opening is a chess opening played by White and typified by play on one or both flanks (the portion of the chess board outside the central d and e files).
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Grandmaster (chess)
The title Grandmaster (GM) is awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.
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Henrik Danielsen
Henrik Danielsen (born 23 January 1966) is a Danish-Icelandic chess grandmaster.
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Henry Bird (chess player)
Henry Edward Bird (Portsea in Hampshire, 14 July 1830 – 11 April 1908) was an English chess player, and also an author and accountant.
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Hereford Times
The Hereford Times is a weekly tabloid newspaper published every Thursday in Hereford, England.
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Ken Whyld
Kenneth Whyld (6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of The Oxford Companion to Chess, a single-volume chess reference work in English.
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King (chess)
In chess, the king (♔,♚) is the most important piece.
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King's Fianchetto Opening
The 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 the move: White's 1.g3 ranks as the fifth most popular opening move, but it is far less popular than 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1.Nf3.
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King's Gambit
The King's Gambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves: White offers a pawn to divert the black e-pawn.
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King's Pawn Game
The King's Pawn Game is any chess opening starting with the move: It is among the most popular opening moves in chess.
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List of chess openings
This is a list of chess openings, organized by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code.
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List of chess openings named after people
The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants.
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Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais
Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795– December 1840) was a French chess master, possibly the strongest player in the early 19th century.
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Luis Ramírez de Lucena
Luis Ramírez de Lucena (c. 1465 – c. 1530) was a Spanish chess player who published the first still-existing chess book.
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Martin Severin From
Martin Severin Janus From (8 April 1828 – 6 May 1895) was a Danish chess master.
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Mikhail Gurevich (chess player)
Mikhail Naumovich Gurevich (born 1959) is a Soviet chess player.
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Modern Defense
The Modern Defense (also known as the Robatsch Defence after Karl Robatsch) is a hypermodern chess opening in which Black allows White to occupy the center with pawns on d4 and e4, then proceeds to attack and undermine this "ideal" center without attempting to occupy it himself.
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Nick de Firmian
Nicholas Ernest de Firmian (born July 26, 1957 in Fresno, California), is a chess grandmaster and three-time U.S. chess champion, winning in 1987 (with Joel Benjamin), 1995, and 1998.
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Pawn structure
In chess, the pawn structure (sometimes known as the pawn skeleton) is the configuration of pawns on the chessboard.
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Polish Defense
The Polish Defense is the name commonly given to one of several sequences of chess opening moves characterized by an early...b5 by Black.
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Queen's Pawn Game
The Queen's Pawn Game is any chess opening starting with the move: It is the second most popular opening move after 1.e4.
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Richard Palliser
Richard David Palliser (born 18 September 1981) is an English chess player and chess writer who holds the title International Master.
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Savielly Tartakower
Ksawery Tartakower (also known as Saviely or Savielly Tartakower in English, less often Xavier Tartacover or Xavier Tartakover; 1887–1956) was a leading Polish and French chess grandmaster.
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Scandinavian Defense
The Scandinavian Defense (or Center Counter Defense, or Center Counter Game) is a chess opening characterized by the moves.
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Sicilian Defence
The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4.
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Stonewall Attack
The Stonewall Attack is a chess opening; more specifically it is a variation of the Queen's Pawn Game.
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The Oxford Companion to Chess
The Oxford Companion to Chess is a reference book on the game of chess, written by David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld.
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Transposition (chess)
A transposition in chess and other chess-like games is a sequence of moves that results in a position which may also be reached by another, more common sequence of moves.
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World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship (sometimes abbreviated as WCC) is played to determine the World Champion in chess.
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Zukertort Opening
The Zukertort Opening is a chess opening named after Johannes Zukertort that begins with the move: Sometimes the term "Réti Opening" is used to describe the opening move 1.Nf3, although most sources define the Réti more narrowly as the sequence 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4.
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Redirects here:
1 f4, 1. f4, 1.f4, A02 (chess opening), A03 (chess opening), Bird opening, Bird's Opening (A03), Bird's opening, Birds Opening, ECO A03, From Gambit, From's Gambit, The From Gambit.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird's_Opening
