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Chess openings quick reference

1. e4

1...e5 · Open

2. Nf3

With 2...Nc6:

• Four knights
  • Four knights Scotch
  • Hallowe'en gambit
• Italian game
  • Blackburne shilling gambit
  • Evan's
  • Fried Liver
  • Giuoco Piano
• Ponziani
• Scotch game
• Spanish game
  • Berlin
  • Morphy
  • Schliemann

With other 2nd moves:

• Busch-Gass gambit
• Elephant gambit
• Greco defence
• Latvian gambit
• Russian game
  • Stafford gambit
• Philidor

2. Other

• Bishop's opening
• Centre game
  • Danish
• King's gambit
• Vienna game
• Wayward queen

• Bongcloud??
• Damiano defence??

1...c5 · Sicilian

2... Nf3 · Open Sicilian

With 2...Nc6:

• Accelerated dragon
  • Maróczy bind
• Classical
• Godiva
• Hyper-accelerated dragon
• Kalashnikov
• Rossolimo
• Sveshnikov

With 2...d6:

• Dragon
  • Levenfish attack
  • Yugoslav attack
• Dragondorf
• Kupreichik
• Moscow
• Najdorf
  • 6. Bg5
  • English attack
  • Opocensky
• Scheveningen

With 2...e6:

• French, Normal
  • American attack
  • Four knights
  • Pin
• Kan
• Kveinis
• Kramnik
• Paulsen-Basman
• Taimanov
  • Bastrikov
    • English attack
  • Szén
    • Gary Gambit

With other 2nd moves:

• Katalymov
• Nimzowitsch
• O'Kelly

Anti-Sicilians

• Alapin
  • Delayed Alapin with 2...Nc6, 2...d6, or 2...e6
• Bowdler
• Closed Sicilian
  • Carlsen
  • Grand Prix
  • Fianchetto
• McDonnell
• Mengarini
• Smith-Morra
• Snyder
• Staunton-Cochrane
• Wing gambit

1... other

Caro-Kann

• Accelerated Panov
• Advance
• Exchange
• Two knights
• Fantasy
• Hillbilly

French

• Advance
• Classical
• Exchange
• Tarrasch
• Rubinstein
• Winawer

Other

• Alekhine
• Czech
• Modern
• Nimzowitsch
• Pirc
• Scandinavian

• Barnes ?
• Borg ?
• Owen's ?

• Corn stalk ??
• Duras ??
• O'Neill ??

1. d4

1...d5 · Closed

2. c4

• Albin countergambit
• Austrian
• Chigorin
• Marshall
• Queen's gambit accepted
• Queen's gambit declined
• Semi-Slav
• Slav

2. Nc3

• Richter-Versov
• Irish gambit
• Jobava London

2. other

• Accelerated London
• Colle
• Blackmar-Diemer Gambit

1...Nf6 · Indian

2. c4

With 2...e6:

• Bogo-Indian
• Catalan
• Nimzo-Indian
• Queen's Indian

With 2...g6:

• King's Indian
• Grünfeld

With other 2nd moves for Black:

• Modern Benoni
  • Benko/Volga
• Budapest gambit
• Mexican
• Old Indian

2. Nf3

• Spielmann Indian
• Torre

2. other

• Trompowsky
• London system Indian setup

1... other

• Dutch
  • Hopton
  • Korchnoi
  • Leningrad
  • Staunton
  • Stonewall
    • Bladel
• English
• Englund gambit
• Horowitz
• Old Benoni
• Polish

Flank

• Bird's (1. f4)
• English (1. c4)
• Grob (1. g4)
• King's fianchetto (1.g3)
• Larsen (1. b3)
• Zukertort/Réti (1.Nf3)

Unorthodox

• a3
• Na3
• a4
• b4
• c3
• Nc3
• d3
• d4
• e3
• e4
• f3
• h3
• Nh3
• h4