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  2. Bird's Opening - Wikipedia

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    Bird's Opening (or the Dutch Attack) is a chess opening characterised by the move: 1. f4. Named after 19th century English player Henry Bird, Bird's opening is a standard flank opening. White's strategic ideas involve control of the e5-square, offering good attacking chances at the expense of slightly weakening their own kingside. Black may ...

  3. Chess opening - Wikipedia

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    Bird's Opening, 1.f4, addresses center control but not development and weakens the king position slightly. The Sokolsky Opening 1.b4 and the King's and Queen's fianchettos: Larsen's Opening 1.b3 and 1.g3 aid development a bit, but they only address center control peripherally and are slower than the more popular openings. The eleven remaining ...

  4. 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").

  5. List of chess openings named after people - Wikipedia

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    From's Gambit of the Bird's Opening1.f4 e5 – named after Martin Severin From [7] Furman Variation of the Queen's Gambit Accepted – 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.0-0 a6 7.dxc5 Bxc5 – named after Semyon Furman [ 48 ]

  6. Talk:Bird's Opening - Wikipedia

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    I made this even clearer by changing the sentence to "Timothy Taylor's book on Bird's Opening suggests as a main line: 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 g6 3.e3 Bg7 4.Be2 Nf6 5.0-0 0-0 6.d3 c5. " But the IP reverted that in favor of his pet language " Timothy Taylor's book on Bird's Opening prefers this classical approach: 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 g6 3.e3 Bg7 4.Be2 Nf6 5.0-0 ...

  7. Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings - Wikipedia

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    In the center are the two openings included in the volume: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6; and 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 without (symbol ┘) an early ...d7–d5. 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 ...

  8. Irregular chess opening - Wikipedia

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    1.b4 – Sokolsky Opening, also known as the Polish Opening or Orangutan Opening; 1.c3 – Saragossa Opening; 1.d3 – Mieses Opening; 1.e3 – Van 't Kruijs Opening; 1.f3 – Barnes Opening, also known as Gedult's Opening; 1.g3 – King's Fianchetto Opening or Benko's Opening; 1.g4 – Grob's Attack; 1.h3 – Clemenz Opening, or Basman's ...

  9. King's Fianchetto Opening - Wikipedia

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    The King's Fianchetto Opening [1] or Benko Opening [2] (also known as the Rat Opening, [3] Hungarian Opening, or Bilek Opening) is a chess opening characterized by the move: 1. g3. White's 1.g3 ranks as the fifth most popular opening move, but it is far less popular than 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1.Nf3. It is usually followed by 2.Bg2, fianchettoing ...