best opening for 1700?
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Jul 7, 2025
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#42
Suprising there is no meta opening because it has been a couple centuries since chess came out
Jul 7, 2025
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#43
Josh11live wrote:
Suprising there is no meta opening because it has been a couple centuries since chess came out
Try "several centuries".
The first chess problems (tactics exercises) that have modern solutions were published c. 840 AD.
The first chess book using recognizably modern rules (castling, en passent, etc) was published in the 1470s.
As a 1700 myself, I use the bishops opening and caro Kann