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This opening is an example of a hypermodern opening in which Black invites White to occupy the centre of the board at an early stage with pawns. [1] Black's intent is to block or otherwise restrain White's central pawns and, if allowed to do so by inaccurate play by White, eventually undermine the White pawn centre by well-timed pawn advances ...
The major lines in the opening start with 1.e4 a6 2.d4 b5 and then branch. The main line continues 3.Nf3 Bb7 4.Bd3 e6 5.0-0 Nf6. Another important line is the Three Pawns Attack, sometimes called the St. George Gambit, which continues 3.c4 e6!? 4.cxb5 axb5 5.Bxb5 Bb7 (Black can also play 3...Bb7 and offer the b-pawn for the more valuable White e-pawn).
White opens with the most popular of the twenty possible opening moves. Since nearly all openings beginning 1.e4 have names of their own, the term King's Pawn Game, unlike Queen's Pawn Game, is rarely used to describe the opening of the game. Advancing the king's pawn two squares is highly useful because it occupies a center square, attacks the ...
The Inverted Hungarian is even rarer than the already very uncommon Hungarian Defense, although it is perfectly playable for White. It may appeal to White players who wish to avoid extensively analyzed double king pawn openings such as the Ruy Lopez, and to those who favor defensive positional maneuvering battles as also often result from the Hungarian Defense.
After 1.d4 e6 2.c4 b6, Black allows White to form a broad pawn centre with 3.e4, ... White can also transpose to a King's Pawn opening with 2.e4, ...
The presence or absence of Black's third move in the Pirc is reported differently, according to the source; [7] with the pawn move 3...g6, Black prepares to fianchetto the king's bishop to g7. Paul van der Sterren therefore described 3...g6 as "the defining move of the Pirc Defence" because the development of the bishop to g7 "creates the same ...
King's Knight Opening: The Gunderam Defense, ... Qe7 does answer the threat against Black's e-pawn, it interferes with the development of Black's dark-square bishop. ...
The King's Knight Opening is a chess opening consisting of the moves: . 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3. White's second move attacks the e-pawn. Black usually defends this with 2...Nc6, which leads to several named openings.