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2. List of chess openings - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code classification system.The chess openings are categorised into five broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken up into one hundred subcategories ("00" through "99").

3. Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings - Wikipedia

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   The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from 1974 to 1979 by the Yugoslavian company Šahovski Informator (Chess Informant). It is currently undergoing its fifth edition. ECO may also refer to the opening classification system used by the ...

4. Chess opening - Wikipedia

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   h. The starting position of chess. The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. [ 1 ] Many opening sequences, known as openings, have standard names such as " Sicilian Defense ".

5. Italian Game - Wikipedia

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   The Italian Game is a family of chess openings beginning with the moves: 2. Nf3 Nc6. 3. Bc4. This opening is defined by the development of the white bishop to c4 (the so-called " Italian bishop "), where it attacks Black's vulnerable f7-square. It is part of the large family of Open Games or Double King's Pawn Games.

6. Hippopotamus Defence - Wikipedia

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   The Hippopotamus Defence is a chess opening system employed by Black, consisting of a double fianchetto structure (bishops on b7 and g7) and a small pawn centre (pawns on d6 and e6). The knights are typically developed to e7 and d7 and the rook's pawns to a6 and h6. [1] This structure can be obtained by a wide variety of move orders but it ...

7. Garry Kasparov - Wikipedia

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   Kasparov also contributed extensively to the five-volume openings series Encyclopedia of Chess Openings from Chess Informant, for which Kasparov also wrote personal columns called Garry's Choice. [310] [311] In 2000, Kasparov co-authored Kasparov Against the World: The Story of the Greatest Online Challenge [312] with grandmaster Daniel King.

8. List of chess gambits - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of chess openings that are gambits. The gambits are organized into sections by the parent chess opening, giving the gambit name, ECO code, and defining moves in algebraic chess notation .

9. Sicilian Defence, Najdorf Variation - Wikipedia

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   The Najdorf Variation[ 1 ] (/ ˈnaɪdɔːrf / NY-dorf) of the Sicilian Defence is one of the most popular, reputable, and deeply studied of all chess openings. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Modern Chess Openings calls it the " Cadillac " or " Rolls-Royce " of chess openings. [ 4 ] The opening is named after the Polish-Argentine grandmaster Miguel Najdorf ...