Longest Opening Names

This has to be one of the longest?

"caro kann advance variation, van der wiel attack, bishop hunt"

Originally posted by plopzilla
This has to be one of the longest?

"caro kann advance variation, van der wiel attack, bishop hunt"

The Queen's Gambit Accepted the Bogulyubov Variation.

I suppose we can be thankful that the chess player
'Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida' only uses
Trompowsky on his opening books, especially if
'Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky' happened upon a variation.

Then of course there is:

1.e4 a6!

The 'Miles' Defence. (that is pretty long) 😉

The Chess Book with the longest title is:

The Book of Chess: Containing the Rudiments of the Game,
and Elementary Analyses of the Most Popular Openings. Exemplified
in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters; Including Staunton's
Analysis of the King's and Queen's Gambits, Numerous Positions.

by Hyacinth R Agnel (1799-1871)

This is not a joke, the code is ISBN: 9781148456034

The Langeheinecke variation of the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit.

There is a fairly comprehensive listing of chess openings on the "ECO Index" page of the Open Encyclopedia of Chess Openings. Hope that helps!

vienna game, Frankenstein-dracula variation