This is a collection of over 60 of the most unusual Chess openings. They are not all necessarily bad openings, it's just that you don't play against openings like the Fred Defense every day. You might like to practise some of these to use if you play a lot of timed games where you only get about 5 or 10 minutes to play all your moves as your opponent is probably not going to know what to play against them and could easily make a mistake or waste a lot of time thinking about what moves are best to play. Also included are over 500 example games involving these openings.
Alapin's Opening
View 3 example games here |
Anderssen's Opening
View 30 example games here |
Anti-Veresov Variation
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Barnes Defense (Fried Fox Variation)
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Battambang Opening
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Blackburne Gambit
View 7 example games here |
Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
View 29 example games here |
Borg Defense
View 4 example games here |
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Budapest Gambit
View 41 example games here |
Carr's Defense
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Clemenz Opening
View 11 example games here |
Corn Stalk Defense
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Crab Opening
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Damiano Defense
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Deprez Opening
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Dresden Variation
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Durkin's Attack
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Elephant Gambit (aka Queen's Pawn Counter-Gambit)
View 17 example games here |
English Orangutan
View 4 example games here |
Englund Gambit
View 15 example games here |
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Chess Puzzles
This is a collection of checkmate puzzles. There are sets of 12 puzzles for beginners, intermediate and advanced players.
Chess Openings
From this page you will find links to my various openings pages. There are pages about the Blackburne Gambit, Budapest Gambit, Hippopotamus Defense, Ruy Lopez, Slav Defense and St George's Defense and a collection of Unusual Openings. In total there are over 700 example games involving these openings.
Chess Opening Statistics
These are statistics compiled from over 2 million games. It shows for each opening and variation what percentage of matches were won by white, black and were drawn. Also included are white's and black's best and worst 10 openings statistically and what are the most and least drawn openings. There are statistics for nearly 300 different openings and variations.
Chess
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How to Beat Chess Computers
This page gives tips and advice on how to beat Chess Computers. It gives advice on what to do and what not to do against Chess Computers and includes example games that demonstrate a few key points.