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Sub:
Twenty ways to open a game
Date:
9/23/2007 4:11:04 PM Mountain Standard Time
From:
Brown_107
To:
service@Chess-poster.com
Hi,
On your page (Chess Quiz Level 1) you
state that there are twenty possible ways to open a game. If
so, are they legal moves and do all of them have Opening
names?
Thank you.
George Brown Jr.
Chess-poster.com Dear viewer,
At the beginning of a game, white
has 20 possible first moves and all of them are legal moves, of
course.
Also, those 20 moves have Opening
names. The names are as follows:
a2-a3........
Anderssen's Opening
a2-a4........ Ware Opening
b2-b3........ Nimzowitsch-Larsen
Attack
b2-b4........ Orang-Utan Opening
c2-c3........ Saragossa Opening
c2-c4........ English Opening
d2-d3........ Mieses Opening
d2-d4........ Queen's Opening
e2-e3........ Van't Kruys Opening
e2-e4......... King's Opening
f2-f3........... Barnes' Opening
f2-f4........... Bird's Opening
g2-g3......... Benko Opening
g2-g4......... Grob Opening
h2-h3......... Clemenz Opening
h2-h4......... Kadas' Opening
Nb1-a3....... Durkin Opening
Nb1-c3....... Van Geet Opening
Ng1-f3........ Reti Opening (Zukertort
Opening)
Ng1-h3....... Amer/Paris Opening
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