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  2. List of chess openings - Wikipedia

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    Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation, Winter Variation: 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 0-0 6. 0-0 d6 7. Nc3 Qe8 8. Re1; A98 Dutch, Ilyin–Genevsky Variation with 7.Nc3 Qe8 8.Qc2: 8.Qc2 Dutch Defense: Classical Variation, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation, Alatortsev-Lisitsyn Line: 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4 ...

  3. Chess opening - Wikipedia

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    The eleven remaining possibilities are rarely played at the top levels of chess. Of these, the best are merely slow such as 1.c3, 1.d3, and 1.e3. Worse possibilities either ignore the center and development such as 1.a3, weaken White's position (for instance, 1.f3 and 1.g4), or place the knights on poor squares (1.Na3 and 1.Nh3).

  4. List of chess gambits - Wikipedia

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    (Top) 1 Alekhine's Defense. 2 Benko Gambit. ... This is a list of chess openings that are gambits. ... Tarrasch Defense Marshall Gambit ...

  5. Shogi strategy - Wikipedia

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    Shogi, like western chess, can be divided into the opening, middle game and endgame, each requiring a different strategy.The opening consists of arranging one's defenses and positioning for attack, the middle game consists of attempting to break through the opposing defenses while maintaining one's own, and the endgame starts when one side's defenses have been compromised.

  6. Dutch Defence - Wikipedia

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    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 middlegame on White's kingside; however, it also weakens Black's kingside to some extent, especially on the e8–h5 diagonal. [1]

  7. 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 ]

  8. Queen's Pawn Game - Wikipedia

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    The Franco-Indian Defence is a chess opening characterized by the moves: 1.d4 e6. This play allows White to play 2.e4, entering the French Defence . If White wants to continue with a Queen's Pawn Game however, 2.c4 and 2.Nf3 usually transpose to a familiar opening such as the Queen's Gambit Declined , Nimzo-Indian or Queen's Indian .

  9. Slav Defense - Wikipedia

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    The Slav Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves: . 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6. The Slav is one of the primary defenses to the Queen's Gambit.Although it was analyzed as early as 1590, it was not until the 1920s that it started to be explored extensively, although Steinitz essayed it in the first official World Chess Championship of 1886.