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The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: . 1. c4. A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular [1] [2] and, according to various databases, one of the four most successful of White's twenty possible first moves.
7 English Opening. 8 French Defense. 9 Indian Defense. 10 Italian Game. 11 King's Gambit. ... Blumenfeld Counter Gambit – E10 – 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5 b5 [1]
The Rat Defense, English Rat [1] [2] is an irregular Queen's Pawn Game chess opening characterised by the initial moves: 1. d4 d6 2. c4 e5. The position can also arise from an English Opening move order 1.c4 d6 2.d4 e5. Another possible move order can be reached via the Englund Gambit: 1. d4 e5 2. c4 d6.
Opening: This usually refers to an opening played by White, such as the English Opening or Bird's Opening. Variation: Used to describe a branch of another named opening, for example the Najdorf Variation, a line of the Sicilian Defense. Defense: Refers to an opening chosen by Black, such as Two Knights Defense or Caro-Kann Defense.
Like White's move, Black's move is non-committal as to opening. 2.d4 is identical to 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 (see Queen's Pawn Game). 2.c4 is a common start for the English Opening or it may be brought back to the Queen's Gambit Declined 2.g3 is a common start for the King's Indian Attack.
Other early references used the name Ahlhausen's Opening, after Carl Ahlhausen (1835–1892) of Berlin, one of the first to play 1.g4. Savielly Tartakower sometimes played this opening in simultaneous exhibitions and called it the Genoa or San Pier D'Arena Opening , after the city and suburb of Genoa where he first used it.
The Traxler Counterattack, also known as the Wilkes-Barre Variation, is a chess opening that begins with the moves: . 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Bc5!?. The opening is a variation of the Two Knights Defense [1] [2] where White has chosen the offensive line 4.Ng5, immediately attacking the f7-square with the knight and bishop, and Black has replied 4...Bc5, counterattacking the f2-square.
After 3.c4, the opening could be said to have transposed to an English Opening (1.c4), but these lines occur almost exclusively via a 1.b3 move order. In this variation, White argues that since the Sicilian Defence (1.e4 c5) is one of the very best responses to 1.e4, acquiring a Sicilian Defence position with an extra move must be superior.