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Trivia: geography in chess openings

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Written by Natalia Pogonina   
Friday, 26 February 2010
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Trivia: geography in chess openings
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It is amazing how many countries, cities and nationalities are involved in chess openings. Let's have some fun and compile a full list!
I will be adding the replies from the comments to the post until we have all of them.

To warm-up, here are some obvious ones:
1. The French Defense: 1.e4 e6
2. The Sicilian: 1.e4 c5
3. They Ruy Lopez (aka Spanish opening): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5

More? Please rely on your memory only, no googling!

4. Dutch Defense (Bob Clowar): 1.d4 f5
5. Scotch Game (Ciaran Ruane): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4
6. Italian Game (Ciaran Ruane): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4
7.Scandinavian Defense (Ciaran Ruane): 1.e4 d5
8.Catalan Opening (Ciaran Ruane): 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2
9. Indian defenses (Ciaran Ruane)
10. Petroff's Defense (aka Russian Opening, karpidis): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6
11. English opening (karpidis): 1.c4
12. Vienna Game (Felipe Pait): 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3
13. Austrian attack (Ganesh): 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4
14. Berlin Defense (Ganesh): 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6
15. Budapest gambit (Jerry Weldin): 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5
16. Moscow variation of the Sicilian Defense (Jerry Weldin): 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5
17. Meran variation (yvind Pedersen): 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4
18. London system (yvind Pedersen) : 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4


Not bad, but I know a few more!

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Comments (19)
1. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 21:24 26 2010 .
 
 
Dutch Defense
 
2. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 21:40 26 2010 .
 
 
Scotch, Italian, Scandinavian, Catalan.
 
3. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 21:52 26 2010 .
 
 
Lots of Indians too of course!
 
4. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 22:41 26 2010 .
 
 
The Russian, English opening,
 
5. Written by turu on 22:58 26 2010 .
 
 
Petrov Defence is called Russian Opening in Estonia.
 
6. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 23:02 26 2010 .
 
 
Vienna Gambit
Vienna Gambit,
 
7. Written by Kishore on 03:17 27 2010 .
 
 
Vienna Gambit
French defence 
king's indian, queen's indian 
sicilian opening 
catalan opening
 
8. Written by Phisey on 04:43 27 2010 .
 
 
Vienna Gambit
Lots of Indians too of course! :)
 
9. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 06:21 27 2010 .
 
 
Vienna Gambit
Austrian Attack in Pirc 
St.Petersburg (1..a6) 
Spanish Berlin
 
10. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 07:31 27 2010 .
 
 
Vienna Gambit
The Budapest 
1.d4 Nf6, 2.c4 e5
 


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