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bobbyDK

here is a list of opening named after places

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_openings_named_after_places
a lot of these places are in europe.

bresando
AnthonyCG wrote:

Yep.

 


Thanks, now i remember. The pawn sacrifice 4...d6! is meant to be better than Ng7 but i remember black was playing in a team event and in such a competition sacrificing material is not good strategy, so he went for Ng7. 4...d6 was played in another very high-level game, Ivanchuk-carlsen 1-0 at the last olympiads. Black was smashed but according to Ivanchuk white only had a slight edge before black started playing in a too adventurous fashion. it's an interesting line.

batgirl
bresando wrote:

Or maybe this name refers particularly to 6.d3? But isn't Bc5 really uncommon due to 6.Nxe4 which looks rather pleasant for white?


That's the Berserker part.

afcwheels

I am totally out of my depth on here Cry

Trulte

Openings I play now or used to play named after European places:

London System, Danish gambit, Spanish, French, Scandinavian, Slav.

LinktheGreat42

French beginning and European Defence. I also like the Russian beginning-sometimes-Its to violent.

Chuck639

English, Sicilian and Catalan.