Periodic Table of Chess Openings

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Evasive-Mongoose

For an assignment for school, I have been tasked with devising a periodic table of one of my interests. I naturally chose chess and decided a good way to do it would be categorizing openings. The easiest way I think would be to list them by which row they open upon. So I need a list of:

 

5 openings whose first move is upon the A line

 

4 openings  whose first move is upon the B line

 

4 for C line

 

4 for D line

 

4 for E line

 

4 for F line

 

4 for G line

 

And lastly, 5 for H line.

 

 

 

Think of it as a challenge of your chess savvy. Massive cheers to anyone who contributes,   

 

            Zennis.

 

exomancer

The a line has the Kadas the b-line has orangutan and Larsens f-line has bird's Gedult's and From gambit g line has the hungarian.

kingsrook11

You could base it on the ECO codes for openings. These run from A to E, which could be used for the column headings. You could then arrange the openings in numerical order going from 00 to 99 going down the column. A nice touch would then be to add subscript numbers to denote the opening number just like their do with atomic numbers. The full list of ECO opening codes can be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_openings#B00 

If you look at this wikipedia site you will see that each A,B,C,D, and E category are broken down into further subcategories which give a broad description of the opening e.g. A80-99 covers 1d4 d5 Dutch Defence. This would give you more column headings, plus column headings that actually have more meaning.