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Hiya, I made this forum to list all the weirdest chess opening names that chess players have heard of.


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1.e4...

 

King's pawn game                              

Bishop's opening                                

Philidor                                 

Vienna

Scotch

Two Knights

Three Knights

Four Knights                           

Scandinavian

Center Game

Giuoco Piano

Evans Gambit

King's Indian Attack

Alekhine's defense                       

Robatsch

Pirc

Modern

Petrov

 

KIng's Gambit

-Declined

-Accepted

Caro-Kann

 

French defense

-Classical

-Advance

-Exchange

-Tarrasch

-Winawer

 

Ruy Lopez

-Closed

-Open

-Exchange

 

 

Sicilian defense

 -Dragon

-Kan

-Taimanov

-Richter-Rauser

-Scheveningen

-Najdorf

-Closed

-Alapin 

 

 

....1.d4

Queen's Pawn Game

Torre Attack

Catalan

Dutch defense

Staunton Gambit

Bogo Indian

Budapest Gambit

Old Benoni

Modern Benoni

Benko Gambit

Grunfeld

Queen's Indian

Nimzo Indian

King's Indian

Saemisch Attack

Old Indian

Queen's Gambit Accepted

Queen's Gambit Declined

Albin Counter

Chigorin

Tarrasch

Semi-Tarrasch

Slav defense

Semi-slav defense

Orthodox

 

 

...1.c4 and others 

Uncommon Opening

Nimzo-Larsen Attack

Bird's Opening

Reti System

 

English Opening

- 1.c4 e5

-1.c4 c5

-other 

 

 


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Grob 1.g4
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dalmatinac wrote:

1.e4...

 

King's pawn game                              

Bishop's opening                                

Pirc

Modern

Petrov

 

KIng's Gambit

-Declined

-Accepted

Caro-Kann

 

French defense

-Classical

-Advance

-Exchange

-Tarrasch

-Winawer...

 

 

 

 


What? Many of these are not weird at all. Ex: King's Pawn Opening, Queen's Pawn Opening, English Opening, Kings Gambit


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Sorry I probably shouldn't have quoted the whole thing. It's way to long......
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My english is poor,I even don't know what mean Weird. Smile
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post the openings again in Bosanski and they will be weird for most of us Smile
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Sodium Opening 1. Na3

Also known as the Durkin Opening or Durkin's Attack, but I prefer the Sodium.


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Giuco Piano
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Orangutan

 


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patupat gambit
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Drunken Knight Opening AKA Ammonia Opening (Nh3)


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No name is weird just unique.
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why is it called the sodium opening? is it a relation to salt
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Polish Opening 1.b4 and Portuguese Opening 1.e4, e5 2.Bb5
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Reversed grob(Borg)
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I've got one thing to say, and if you know me you probably know what I'm going to say: Boungcloud Opening. The end.
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I'm dutchdefense! Yell
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The Ware Opening, Crab Variation is 1.a4 e5 2.h4.
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hippopotamus defense is the oddest name I've come across