A flank opening is a chess opening played by White and typified by play on one or both flanks (the portion of the chess board outside the central d and e files). White often plays in hypermodern style, attacking the center from the flanks with pieces rather than occupying it with pawns. Some of these openings are played often, although more often by advanced players than beginners, and 1.Nf3 and 1.c4 trail only 1.e4 and 1.d4 in popularity as opening moves.
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A flankopening is a chess opening played by White and typified by play on one or both flanks (the portion of the chess board outside the central d and...
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The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: 1. c4 A flankopening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases...
The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from...
whether in the center or on the flanks. At higher levels of competition, for many years the main objectives of opening play were to obtain a better position...
narrowly as the sequence 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4. A flankopening, it is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1...
The Dutch Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 f5 Black's 1...f5 stakes a claim to the e4-square and envisions an attack in the...
The Catalan Opening is a chess opening where White plays d4 and c4 and fianchettoes the white bishop on g2. A common opening sequence is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4...
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The Durkin Opening (also known as the Durkin Attack or the Sodium Attack) is a rarely played chess opening. 1. Na3 The Durkin Opening is named for Robert...
opening that begins with the following moves: 1. e4 c5 The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. Opening...
The London System is an opening system in chess where White opens with 1.d4 and develops the dark-squared bishop to f4, then supports the d4-pawn with...
The Barnes Opening (sometimes called Gedult's Opening) is a chess opening where White opens with: 1. f3 The opening is named after Thomas Wilson Barnes...
The Amar Opening (also known as the Paris Opening, or the Drunken Knight Opening) is a chess opening defined by the move: 1. Nh3 Analogous to calling...
a flanking maneuver is a movement of an armed force around an enemy force's side, or flank, to achieve an advantageous position over it. Flanking is...
Defense, or simply the Benoni, is a chess opening characterized by an early reply of ...c5 against White's opening move 1.d4. The original form of the Benoni...
is a chess opening characterized by the moves: 1. e4 d5 This opening is classified under code B01 in the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings. The Scandinavian...
is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code classification system. The chess openings are categorised into...
The Benko Gambit (or Volga Gambit) is a chess opening characterised by the move 3...b5 in the Benoni Defence arising after: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5...
The Vienna Game is an opening in chess that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 White's second move is less common than 2.Nf3, and is also more recent...
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