Unorthodox Chess OpeningsThis inclusive guide to every unorthodox opening used by chess players contains more than 500 weird, contentious, controversial, unconventional, arrogant, and outright strange openings. A powerful part of any chess player's arsenal, these tricky tacky surprises fly in the face of tradition. 1,000+ illustrations and diagrams. |
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advantage Alapin Alekhine Alekhine Defense Attack Basman Bb4+ Benoni Defense better for Black better for White Black resigned Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Bücker Bxc3 Bxc5 bxc6 Bxd5 Bxe2 Bxf3 Bxg4 capture Caro-Kann Defense castle Championship Chess Openings clearly better compensation Countergambit counterplay cxd4 cxd5 Defense 1.e4 Dutch Defense dxe4 dxe5 e-pawn endgame English Opening Englund Gambit Eric Schiller EXAMPLES AND DISCUSSION exd4 exd5 exf4 extra pawn Fianchetto French Defense fxe4 gives Black gives White Grob gxf6 ÎÎÎ Indian Game King Pawn Game King's Gambit Accepted kingside knight Kxf7 main line Morphy move Nbd7 Nge7 Nimzowitsch Defense Nxc3 Nxd4 Nxd5 Nxe4 Nxe5 Nxf6 Opening A00 pawn structure pieces play playable players Postal Qh4+ Queen Pawn Game Queen's Gambit queenside Qxd5 Qxe5 Qxf6 rook Schiller Sicilian Defense Steinitz Tartakower tournament transposes tttt unorthodox openings Vienna Game White resigned 土土 土生土 立立 立统 繼立