Sasha-Mulligan wrote: tonydal wrote: Since he's the one who played it, it should be named after him. Well I know that for a fact that the opening: The Scotch Game, which name was decided from a match in 1824 between the London and Edinburgh chess clubs. The London team were who played this opening, but the Scots liked it so much that they claimed the opening name. So the way I see itif your opponent doesn't want to claim this new opening then why not, but to get an opening globally recognised and accepted it must be played in a major tournament.
tonydal wrote: Since he's the one who played it, it should be named after him.
Since he's the one who played it, it should be named after him.
Well I know that for a fact that the opening: The Scotch Game, which name was decided from a match in 1824 between the London and Edinburgh chess clubs. The London team were who played this opening, but the Scots liked it so much that they claimed the opening name.
So the way I see itif your opponent doesn't want to claim this new opening then why not, but to get an opening globally recognised and accepted it must be played in a major tournament.
That's not quite the whole story, Sasha...London did in fact play it in game 1, but then the Scottish team played it in games 3 and 5. So I guess they got the rights to the name by a 2-1 vote (or something like that).
If this was sound, it should be called the Poisoned Pawn variation of the Scandinavian. Since the pawn is probably not very bitter, it should probably keep the name Ramy gambit, or Sean gambit.
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