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The Damiano Defence is a chess opening beginning with the moves: . e4 e5; Nf3 f6?; The defence is one of the oldest chess openings, with games dating back to the 16th century. It is a weak opening that gives a large advantage for White after 3.Nxe5.
He also offers advice regarding blindfold chess, principally focused on the need to master notation based on numbering the squares 1–64 (Murray 1913, 788–89). In this book Damiano suggested chess was invented by Xerxes, which would be why it was known in Portuguese as xadrez and in Spanish as ajedrez.
Damiano Defence – 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 – named after Pedro Damiano [35] although he gave the refutation rather than endorsing it [36] Desprez Opening – 1.h4 – named after Marcel Desprez [ 37 ] Döry Defence – 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Ne4 – named after Ladislaus Döry [ 7 ]
This opening, the Damiano Defense is named in his honor. The Damiano Variation of the Petrov Defense will also later be named for Damiano's work, appearing in a game in which Damiano (playing white) takes advantage of poor play by Black to fork his King and Queen. 1561 – Inspired by Damiano's previous written work, Spaniard chess player Ruy ...
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Petrov's Defence or the Petrov Defence (also called Petroff Defence, Petrov's Game, Russian Defence, or Russian Game – Russian: Русская партия) is a chess opening characterised by the following moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6
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