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List of chess openings

Index List of chess openings

This is a list of chess openings, organized by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code. [1]

117 relations: Alapin's Opening, Albin Countergambit, Alekhine's Defence, Anderssen's Opening, Balogh Defense, Baltic Defense, Barnes Opening, Benko Gambit, Bird's Opening, Blackmar–Diemer Gambit, Blumenfeld Gambit, Bogo-Indian Defence, Budapest Gambit, Caro–Kann Defence, Catalan Opening, Chess opening, Chess theory, Clemenz Opening, Danish Gambit, Danvers Opening, Desprez Opening, Dunst Opening, Durkin Opening, Dutch Defence, Elephant Gambit, Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, English Defence, English Opening, Englund Gambit, Evans Gambit, French Defence, Grünfeld Defence, Grünfeld Defence, Nadanian Variation, Greco Defence, Grob's Attack, Gunderam Defense, Hedgehog (chess), Hippopotamus Defence, Hou Yifan, Hungarian Defense, Index of gaming articles, Indian Defence, Inverted Hungarian Opening, Irish Gambit, Irregular chess opening, Italian Gambit, Italian Game, Italian Game, Blackburne Shilling Gambit, Italian Game, Rousseau Gambit, Keres Defence, ..., King's Fianchetto Opening, King's Gambit, Falkbeer Countergambit, King's Gambit, Fischer Defense, King's Gambit, McDonnell Gambit, King's Gambit, Rice Gambit, King's Pawn Game, Konstantinopolsky Opening, Larsen's Opening, Latvian Gambit, Lisitsin Gambit, List of chess openings named after people, List of chess openings named after places, London System, Maróczy Bind, Marshall Defense, Merano, Mieses Opening, Modern Defense, Monkey's Bum, Modern Defense, North Sea Variation, Napoleon Opening, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Nimzowitsch Defence, Old Indian Defense, Open Game, Outline of chess, Owen's Defence, Petrov's Defence, Philidor Defence, Pirc Defence, Polish Defense, Ponziani Opening, Portuguese Opening, Queen's Gambit Declined, Queen's Gambit Declined, Cambridge Springs Defense, Queen's Pawn Game, Réti Opening, Richter–Veresov Attack, Ruy Lopez, Saragossa Opening, Scandinavian Defense, Scotch Game, Semi-Italian Opening, Semi-Tarrasch Defense, Shogi opening, Sicilian Defence, Sicilian Defence, Alapin Variation, Sicilian Defence, Chekhover Variation, Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation, Sicilian Defence, Katalymov Variation, Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation, Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation, Sicilian Defence, Smith–Morra Gambit, Sokolsky Opening, Staunton Gambit, Stepan Levitsky, Swiss Gambit, Tarrasch Defense, Tennison Gambit, Torre Attack, Trompowsky Attack, Two Knights Defense, Max Lange Attack, Van't Kruijs Opening, Vienna Game, Wade Defence, Ware Opening, X3D Fritz, Zukertort Opening. Expand index (67 more) »

Alapin's Opening

Alapin's Opening is an unusual chess opening that starts with the moves: It is named after the Russo-Lithuanian player and openings analyst Semyon Alapin (1856–1923).

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Albin Countergambit

The Albin Countergambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves: and the usual continuation is: The opening is an uncommon defense to the Queen's Gambit.

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Alekhine's Defence

Alekhine's Defence is a chess opening which begins with the moves: Black tempts White's pawns forward to form a broad pawn centre, with plans to undermine and attack the white structure later in the spirit of hypermodern defence.

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Anderssen's Opening

Anderssen's Opening is a chess opening defined by the opening move: Anderssen's Opening is named after unofficial World Chess Champion Adolf Anderssen, who played it three times in his 1858 match against Paul Morphy.

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Balogh Defense

The Balogh Defense (also known as the Balogh Counter Gambit) is an unusual chess opening beginning with the moves: It may also arise by transposition from the Staunton Gambit against the Dutch Defense, 1.d4 f5 2.e4!?, if Black declines the gambit with 2...d6.

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Baltic Defense

The Baltic Defense (also known as the Grau Defense, or the Sahovic Defense) is a chess opening characterized by the moves: The Baltic is an unusual variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined (QGD).

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Barnes Opening

Barnes Opening is a chess opening where White opens with: The opening is named after Thomas Wilson Barnes (1825–1874), an English player who had an impressive eight wins over Paul Morphy, including one game where Barnes answered 1.e4 with 1...f6, known as Barnes Defence.

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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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Bird's Opening

Bird's Opening (or the Dutch Attack) is a chess opening characterised by the move: Bird's is a standard flank opening.

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Blackmar–Diemer Gambit

The Blackmar–Diemer Gambit (or BDG) is a chess opening characterized by the moves: where White intends to follow up with f2–f3, usually on the fourth move.

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Blumenfeld Gambit

The Blumenfeld Gambit is a chess opening characterised by the moves 3...e6 4.Nf3 b5 in the Benoni Defense arising after: or alternatively: In fact, as many as 30 different move orders are possible.

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Bogo-Indian Defence

The Bogo-Indian Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The position arising after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 is common.

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Budapest Gambit

The Budapest Gambit (or Budapest Defence) is a chess opening that begins with the moves: Despite an early debut in 1896, the Budapest Gambit received attention from leading players only after a win as Black by Grandmaster Milan Vidmar over Akiba Rubinstein in 1918.

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Caro–Kann Defence

The Caro–Kann Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Caro–Kann is a common defence against the King's Pawn Opening and is classified as a "Semi-Open Game" like the Sicilian Defence and French Defence, although it is thought to be more solid and less dynamic than either of those openings.

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Catalan Opening

The Catalan is a chess opening where White adopts a combination of the Queen's Gambit and Réti Opening: White plays d4 and c4 and fianchettoes the white bishop on g2.

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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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Chess theory

The game of chess is commonly divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame.

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Clemenz Opening

The Clemenz Opening is a chess opening beginning with the move: This opening is named after Hermann Clemenz (1846–1908), an Estonian player.

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Danish Gambit

The Danish Gambit, known as the Nordisches Gambit (Nordic Gambit) in German, and the Noors Gambiet (Norwegian Gambit) in Dutch, is a chess opening that begins with the moves: White will sacrifice one or two pawns for the sake of rapid and the attack.

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Danvers Opening

The Danvers Opening,Edward Winter, at chesshistory.com also known as the Kentucky Opening,, Dubuque Chess Journal, May 1875, page 250 scanned at Hathitrust (original from New York Public Library) Queen's Attack, Queen's Excursion, Wayward Queen Attack, Patzer OpeningLev Alburt & Al Lawrence,, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010 or Parham AttackThe Chess Drum,, 6 July 2003 is an unorthodox chess opening characterized by the moves.

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Desprez Opening

The Desprez Opening is a chess opening characterized by the opening move: The opening is named after the French player Marcel Desprez.

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Dunst Opening

The Dunst Opening is a chess opening where White opens with the move: This fairly uncommon opening may have more names than any other: it is also called the Heinrichsen Opening, Baltic Opening, van Geet's Opening, Sleipnir Opening, Kotrč's Opening, Meštrović Opening, Romanian Opening, Queen's Knight Attack, Queen's Knight Opening, Millard's Opening, Knight on the Left, and (in German) der Linksspringer.

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Durkin Opening

The Durkin Opening (also known as the Durkin Attack or the Sodium Attack) is a rarely played chess opening beginning with the move: The Durkin Opening is named for Robert James Durkin (1923–?) of New Jersey.

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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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Elephant Gambit

The Elephant Gambit (also called the Queen's Pawn Counter Gambit or Englund Counterattack) is a rarely played chess opening beginning with the moves: Although the Elephant Gambit is considered unsound, it has been used frequently by the Barbadian master Philip Corbin.

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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 Defence

The English Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves.

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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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Englund Gambit

The Englund Gambit is a rarely played chess opening that starts with the moves: Black's idea is to avoid the traditional closed queen's pawn games and create an open game with tactical chances, but at the cost of a pawn.

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Evans Gambit

The Evans Gambit is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Evans Gambit is an aggressive line of the Giuoco Piano, which normally continues with the positional moves 4.c3 or 4.d3.

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French Defence

The French Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: This is most commonly followed by 2.d4 d5, with Black intending...c5 at a later stage, attacking White's and gaining on the.

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Grünfeld Defence

The Grünfeld Defence (ECO codes D70–D99) is a chess opening characterised by the moves: Black offers White the possibility of cxd5, when after Nxd5 White further gets the opportunity to kick the Black Knight around with e4, leading to an imposing central pawn duo for White.

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Grünfeld Defence, Nadanian Variation

The Nadanian Variation (sometimes called the Nadanian Attack) of the Grünfeld Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Nadanian Variation is classified in the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings with the code D85.

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Greco Defence

The Greco Defence (or McConnell Defense), named after Gioachino Greco (c. 1600 – c. 1634), is a chess opening beginning with the moves: The opening is categorized as ECO code C40.

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Grob's Attack

Grob's Attack is an unconventional chess opening where White immediately moves the king knight's pawn two squares ahead.

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Gunderam Defense

The Gunderam Defense is a rarely played chess opening starting with the moves: It is named after the chess player Gerhard Gunderam.

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Hedgehog (chess)

The Hedgehog is a pawn formation in chess adopted usually by Black that can arise from several openings.

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Hippopotamus Defence

The Hippopotamus Defence is a name for various irregular chess opening systems in which Black moves a number of his pawns to the sixth rank, often developing his pieces to the seventh rank, and does not move any of his pawns to the fifth rank in the opening.

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Hou Yifan

Hou Yifan (born 27 February 1994), China Chess League is a Chinese chess grandmaster and three-time Women's World Chess Champion.

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Hungarian Defense

The Hungarian Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves: The Hungarian Defense is a line in the Italian Game typically chosen as a response to the aggressive 3.Bc4.

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Index of gaming articles

Articles pertaining to games and gaming include.

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Indian Defence

In the game of chess, Indian defence is a broad term for a group of openings characterised by the moves: They are all to varying degrees hypermodern defences, where Black invites White to establish an imposing presence in the centre with the plan of undermining and ultimately destroying it.

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Inverted Hungarian Opening

The Inverted Hungarian Opening or Tayler Opening is an uncommon chess opening that starts with the moves: It is so-named because the position of White's bishop on e2 resembles that of Black's bishop on e7 in the Hungarian Defense.

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Irish Gambit

The Irish Gambit, Chicago Gambit, or Razzle Dazzle Gambit, is a weak chess opening that begins: intending 3...Nxe5 4.d4 (see diagram).

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Irregular chess opening

In chess, irregular opening is a traditional term for any opening considered unusual or unorthodox.

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Italian Gambit

The Italian Gambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves: It is often played as an alternative to the quiet and closed lines of the Giuoco Piano or Giuoco Pianissimo openings.

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Italian Game

The Italian Game is a family of chess openings beginning with the moves: The Italian Game is part of the large family of Open Games or Double King's Pawn Games.

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Italian Game, Blackburne Shilling Gambit

The Blackburne Shilling Gambit is the name facetiously given to a dubious chess opening, derived from an offshoot of the Italian Game, that begins: It is also sometimes referred to as the Kostić Gambit after the Serbian grandmaster Borislav Kostić, who played it in the early 20th century.

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Italian Game, Rousseau Gambit

The Rousseau Gambit (or Ponziani Countergambit) is a chess opening that begins with the moves: The gambit is named after French chess master Eugène Rousseau.

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Keres Defence

The Keres Defence (also known as the Kangaroo Defence or Franco-Indian Defense) is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The opening is named for Estonian grandmaster Paul Keres.

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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, Falkbeer Countergambit

The Falkbeer Countergambit is a chess opening that begins: In this aggressive, Black disdains the pawn offered as a sacrifice, instead opening the centre to exploit White's weakness on the.

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King's Gambit, Fischer Defense

The Fischer Defense to the King's Gambit is a chess opening variation that begins with the moves: Although 3...d6 was previously known, it did not become a major variation until Fischer advocated it in a famous 1961 article in the first issue of the American Chess Quarterly.

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King's Gambit, McDonnell Gambit

The McDonnell Gambit is a chess opening gambit in the King's Gambit, Classical Variation that begins with the moves:Hooper & Whyld (1996), p. 241.

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King's Gambit, Rice Gambit

The Rice Gambit is a chess opening that arises from the King's Gambit Accepted.

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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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Konstantinopolsky Opening

The Konstantinopolsky Opening is a rarely played chess opening that begins with the moves.

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Larsen's Opening

Larsen's Opening (also called the Nimzo–Larsen Attack or Queen's Fianchetto Opening) is a chess opening starting with the move: It is named after the Danish grandmaster Bent Larsen.

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Latvian Gambit

The Latvian Gambit (or Greco Countergambit) is a chess opening characterised by the moves: It is one of the oldest chess openings, having been analysed in the 17th century by Gioachino Greco, after whom it is sometimes named.

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Lisitsin Gambit

The Lisitsin Gambit is a chess opening characterised by the moves.

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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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List of chess openings named after places

The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants.

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London System

The London System is a chess opening that usually arises after 1.d4 and 2.Bf4 or 2.Nf3 & 3.Bf4.

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Maróczy Bind

The Maróczy Bind is a pawn formation in chess, named after the Hungarian grandmaster Géza Maróczy and primarily played against the Sicilian Defence.

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Marshall Defense

The Marshall Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves: The Marshall Defense is a fairly dubious variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined.

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Merano

Merano or Meran is a town and comune in South Tyrol, northern Italy.

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Mieses Opening

The Mieses Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: The opening is named after the German-British grandmaster Jacques Mieses.

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Modern Defense, Monkey's Bum

The Monkey's Bum is a variation of the Modern Defense, a chess opening.

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Modern Defense, North Sea Variation

The North Sea Variation is an opening variation in the game of chess.

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Napoleon Opening

The Napoleon Opening is an irregular chess opening starting with the moves: As with the similar Wayward Queen Attack (2.Qh5), White hopes for the Scholar's Mate (2.Qf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5?? 4.Qxf7#), but Black can easily avoid the trap.

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Nimzo-Indian Defence

The Nimzo-Indian Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: Other move orders, such as 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.d4 Bb4, are also feasible.

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Nimzowitsch Defence

The Nimzowitsch Defence is a somewhat unusual chess opening characterised by the moves: This opening is an example of a hypermodern opening where Black invites White to occupy the of the board at an early stage with pawns.

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Old Indian Defense

The Old Indian Defense is a chess opening defined by the moves: This opening is distinguished from the King's Indian Defense in that Black develops his on e7 rather than by fianchetto on g7.

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Open Game

An Open Game (or Double King's Pawn Opening) is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: White has moved the king's pawn two squares and Black has replied in kind.

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Outline of chess

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid).

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Owen's Defence

Owen's Defence (also known as the Queen's Fianchetto Defence or Greek Defense) is an uncommon chess opening defined by the moves: By playing 1...b6, Black prepares to fianchetto the where it will participate in the battle for the.

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Petrov's Defence

Petrov's Defence or the Petrov Defence (also called Petroff's Defence, Russian Defence, and Russian Game) is a chess opening characterised by the following moves: Though this symmetrical response has a long history, it was first popularised by Alexander Petrov, a Russian chess player of the mid-19th century.

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Philidor Defence

The Philidor Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The opening is named after the famous 18th-century player François-André Danican Philidor, who advocated it as an alternative to the common 2...Nc6.

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Pirc Defence

The Pirc Defence (correctly pronounced "peerts", but often mispronounced "perk"), sometimes known as the Ufimtsev Defence or Yugoslav Defence, is a chess opening characterised by Black responding to 1.e4 with 1...d6 and 2...Nf6, followed by...g6 and...Bg7, while allowing White to establish an impressive-looking centre with pawns on d4 and e4.

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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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Ponziani Opening

The Ponziani Opening is a chess opening that begins with the moves: It is one of the oldest chess openings, having been discussed in the literature by 1497.

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Portuguese Opening

The Portuguese Opening is a chess opening that begins with the moves: The Portuguese is an uncommon opening.

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Queen's Gambit Declined

The Queen's Gambit Declined (or QGD) is a chess opening in which Black declines a pawn offered by White in the Queen's Gambit: This is known as the Orthodox Line of the Queen's Gambit Declined.

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Queen's Gambit Declined, Cambridge Springs Defense

In chess, the Cambridge Springs Defense (or less commonly, the Pillsbury Variation) is a variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined that begins with the moves: Black breaks the pin on the h4–d8 diagonal and forms a pin of his own on the c3-knight (exploiting the absence of the White's queen bishop from the). If Black later plays dxc4, there may be threats against the g5-bishop.

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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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Réti Opening

The Réti Opening is a hypermodern chess opening whose traditional or classic method begins with the moves: White plans to bring the d5-pawn under attack from the, or entice it to advance to d4 and undermine it later.

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Richter–Veresov Attack

The Richter–Veresov Attack (or Veresov Opening) is a chess opening that begins with the moves: It is also often reached by transposition, for example 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 (the most common move order), 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d5 3.Nc3, or 1.Nc3 Nf6 2.d4 d5 3.Bg5.

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Ruy Lopez

The Ruy Lopez, also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening characterised by the moves: The Ruy Lopez is named after 16th-century Spanish bishop Ruy López de Segura.

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Saragossa Opening

The Saragossa Opening is a chess opening defined by the opening move: Since White usually plays more aggressively in the opening, the Saragossa is considered an irregular opening, classified as A00 by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings.

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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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Scotch Game

The Scotch Game, or Scotch Opening, is a chess opening that begins with the moves: Ercole del Rio, in his 1750 treatise Sopra il giuoco degli Scacchi, Osservazioni pratiche d’anonimo Autore Modenese ("On the game of Chess, practical Observations by an anonymous Modenese Author"), was the first author to mention what is now called the Scotch Game.

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Semi-Italian Opening

The Semi-Italian Opening (also known as Half Giuoco Piano, Lesser Giuoco Piano, and Paris Defence) is one of Black's responses to the Italian Game.

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Semi-Tarrasch Defense

The Semi-Tarrasch Defense is a chess opening characterized by the following moves: The Semi-Tarrasch is a variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined (ECO codes D40 through D42).

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Shogi opening

A shogi opening (戦法) is the sequence of initial moves of a shogi game before the middle game.

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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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Sicilian Defence, Alapin Variation

In chess, the Sicilian Defence, Alapin Variation is a response to the Sicilian Defence characterised by the moves: It is named after the Russian master Semyon Alapin (1856–1923).

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Sicilian Defence, Chekhover Variation

The Sicilian Defence, Chekhover Variation (also sometimes called the Szily Variation or Hungarian Variation) is a chess opening named after Vitaly Chekhover, from the game Chekhover–Lisitsin, Leningrad 1938.

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Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation

In chess, the Dragon Variation is one of the main lines of the Sicilian Defence and begins with the moves: In the Dragon, Black fianchettoes their bishop on the h8–a1 diagonal, building a home for the king on g8 while aiming the bishop at the center and.

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Sicilian Defence, Katalymov Variation

In chess, the Katalymov Variation (also spelled Katalimov) is a less popular line of the Sicilian Defence that begins with the moves.

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Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation

The Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defence is one of the most respected and deeply studied of all chess openings.

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Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation

In chess, the Scheveningen Variation of the Sicilian Defence is an opening that is a line of the Open Sicilian characterised by Black setting up a "small centre" with pawns on d6 and e6.

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Sicilian Defence, Smith–Morra Gambit

In chess, the Smith–Morra Gambit (or simply Morra Gambit) is an opening gambit against the Sicilian Defence distinguished by the moves: White sacrifices a pawn to quickly and create attacking chances.

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Sokolsky Opening

The Sokolsky Opening (also known as the Orangutan or Polish) is an uncommon chess opening that begins with the move: According to various databases, out of the twenty possible first moves from White, the move 1.b4 ranks ninth in popularity.

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Staunton Gambit

The Staunton Gambit is a chess opening characterised by the moves: White sacrifices a pawn for quick development, hoping to launch an attack against Black's, which has been somewhat weakened by 1...f5.

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Stepan Levitsky

Stepan (Stefan) Levitsky (Levitski, Lewitzki) (25 April 1876, Serpukhov – 21 March 1924, Glubokaya) was a Russian chess master and national chess champion.

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Swiss Gambit

The Swiss Gambit is an chess opening which is an offshoot of Bird's Opening (1.f4) and begins with the moves.

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Tarrasch Defense

The Tarrasch Defense is a chess opening characterized by the moves: The Tarrasch is a variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined.

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Tennison Gambit

The Tennison Gambit is a chess opening in which White gambits a pawn.

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Torre Attack

The Torre Attack is a chess opening characterized by the moves: or the Tartakower Variation in the Queen's Pawn Game (ECO code D03): or the Torre Attack in the East Indian Defence (ECO code A48): or the Torre Attack in the Indian Defence (ECO code A47).

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Trompowsky Attack

The Trompowsky Attack is a chess opening that begins with the moves: With his second move, White intends to exchange his bishop for Black's knight, inflicting doubled pawns upon Black in the process.

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Two Knights Defense, Max Lange Attack

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Van't Kruijs Opening

The Van't Kruijs Opening is a chess opening defined by the move: It is named after the Amsterdam player Maarten van 't Kruijs (1813–85) who won the sixth Dutch championship in 1878.

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Vienna Game

The Vienna Game is an opening in chess that begins with the moves: White's second move is less common than 2.Nf3, and is also more recent.

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Wade Defence

The Wade Defence is a chess opening characterised by the initial moves: The position can also arise from the move order 1.Nf3 d6 2.d4 Bg4.

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Ware Opening

The Ware Opening, also known as Meadow Hay Opening, is an uncommon chess opening for White beginning with the move: It is named after Preston Ware, a U.S. chess player who often played uncommon openings.

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X3D Fritz

X3D Fritz was a version of the Fritz chess program, which in November 2003 played a four-game Human–computer chess match against world number one Grandmaster Garry Kasparov.

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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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ECO A00, ECO A01, ECO A02, ECO A04, ECO A05, ECO A07, ECO A08, ECO A09, ECO A10, ECO A11, ECO A12, ECO A13, ECO A14, ECO A15, ECO A16, ECO A17, ECO A18, ECO A19, ECO A20, ECO A21, ECO A22, ECO A23, ECO A24, ECO A25, ECO A26, ECO A27, ECO A28, ECO A29, ECO A30, ECO A31, ECO A32, ECO A33, ECO A34, ECO A35, ECO A36, ECO A37, ECO A38, ECO A39, ECO A40, ECO A41, ECO A42, ECO A43, ECO A44, ECO A45, ECO A46, ECO A47, ECO A48, ECO A49, ECO A50, ECO A51, ECO A52, ECO A53, ECO A54, ECO A55, ECO A56, ECO A57, ECO A58, ECO A59, ECO A60, ECO A61, ECO A62, ECO A63, ECO A64, ECO A65, ECO A66, ECO A67, ECO A68, ECO A70, ECO A71, ECO A72, ECO A73, ECO A74, ECO A75, ECO A76, ECO A77, ECO A78, ECO A79, ECO A80, ECO A81, ECO A82, ECO A83, ECO A84, ECO A85, ECO A86, ECO A87, ECO A88, ECO A89, ECO A90, ECO A91, ECO A92, ECO A93, ECO A94, ECO A95, ECO A96, ECO A97, ECO A98, ECO A99, ECO B00, ECO B01, ECO B02, ECO B03, ECO B04, ECO B05, ECO B06, ECO B07, ECO B08, ECO B09, ECO B10, ECO B11, ECO B12, ECO B13, ECO B14, ECO B15, ECO B16, ECO B17, ECO B18, ECO B19, ECO B20, ECO B21, ECO B22, ECO B23, ECO B24, ECO B25, ECO B26, ECO B27, ECO B28, ECO B29, ECO B30, ECO B31, ECO B32, ECO B33, ECO B34, ECO B35, ECO B36, ECO B37, ECO B38, ECO B39, ECO B40, ECO B41, ECO B42, ECO B43, ECO B44, ECO B45, ECO B46, ECO B47, ECO B48, ECO B49, ECO B50, ECO B51, ECO B52, ECO B53, ECO B54, ECO B55, ECO B56, ECO B57, ECO B58, ECO B59, ECO B60, ECO B61, ECO B62, ECO B63, ECO B64, ECO B65, ECO B66, ECO B67, ECO B68, ECO B69, ECO B70, ECO B71, ECO B72, ECO B73, ECO B74, ECO B75, ECO B76, ECO B77, ECO B78, ECO B79, ECO B80, ECO B81, ECO B82, ECO B83, ECO B84, ECO B85, ECO B86, ECO B87, ECO B88, ECO B89, ECO B90, ECO B91, ECO B92, ECO B93, ECO B94, ECO B95, ECO B96, ECO B97, ECO B98, ECO B99, ECO D31.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_openings

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