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Is there a name for every 1 move opening? Or are just a lot of openings obscure with no real reason behind it?

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I declare opening 1.e4 d6 2.Be2 b6 3.b3 a6 to be called "Jusah defense".

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1.a3 Anderssen's Opening
1.a4 Ware Opening
1.b3 Larsen's Opening
1.b4 Sokolsky / Orangutan
1.c3 Saragossa Opening
1.c4 English
1.d3 Mieses Opening
1.d4 Queen's pawn game
1.e3 Van 't Kruijs Opening
1.e4 King's pawn game
1.f3 Barnes Opening
1.f4 The Bird
1.g3 Benko's Opening
1.g4 The Grob
1.h3 Clemenz Opening
1.h4 Desprez Opening
1.Na3 Durkin Opening
1.Nc3 Dunst Opening
1.Nf3 The Reti
1.Nh3 Amar Opening

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Originally posted by Fat Lady
1.a3 Anderssen's Opening
1.a4 Ware Opening
1.b3 Larsen's Opening
1.b4 Sokolsky / Orangutan
1.c3 Saragossa Opening
1.c4 English
1.d3 Mieses Opening
1.d4 Queen's pawn game
1.e3 Van 't Kruijs Opening
1.e4 King's pawn game
1.f3 Barnes Opening
1.f4 The Bird
1.g3 Benko's Opening
1.g4 The Grob
1.h3 Clemenz Opening
1.h4 Desprez Opening
1.Na3 Durkin Opening
1.Nc3 Dunst Opening
1.Nf3 The Reti
1.Nh3 Amar Opening
Thats impressive.

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And for extra bonus points - which of those twenty openings was most successful against Paul Morphy?

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Originally posted by Fat Lady
And for extra bonus points - which of those twenty openings was most successful against Paul Morphy?
Taking a guess that it was Anderssen's

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Originally posted by ih8sens
Taking a guess that it was Anderssen's
That is correct. Anderssen tried 1.a3 three times against Morphy and managed one win, one draw and one loss.

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Originally posted by Fat Lady
And for extra bonus points - which of those twenty openings was most successful against Paul Morphy?
and for extra bonus points can you give the names of every possible reply by black to every one of those openings.

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Originally posted by Dragon Fire
and for extra bonus points can you give the names of every possible reply by black to every one of those openings.
If these bonuses meant anything I'd be loaded...

Thanks to these forums the answer/question or whatever you want to call it!

"What is the Grob?"

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Originally posted by ih8sens
If these bonuses meant anything I'd be loaded...

Thanks to these forums the answer/question or whatever you want to call it!

"What is the Grob?"
1. g4 worthy of !! or ?? according to choice.

The opposite is 1. .... g5 played against anything white plays (probably even if white chooses to play the violin) and called the Borg.

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This might help:

http://www.csm.astate.edu/~wpaulsen/chess/chess.htm
("Network of Chess Openings" )

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Originally posted by Kepler
1. g4 worthy of !! or ?? according to choice.

The opposite is 1. .... g5 played against anything white plays (probably even if white chooses to play the violin) and called the Borg.
And someone kindly informed me that Borg is simply Grob spelt backwards and nothing to do with the "resistance is futile" semi android beings that used to put the willies up starfleet captians.

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Originally posted by Kepler
1. g4 worthy of !! or ?? according to choice.

The opposite is 1. .... g5 played against anything white plays (probably even if white chooses to play the violin) and called the Borg.
The only time that I ever took clear first in a blitz tournament at the Chess Palace in Los Alamitos, California (now located in Garden Grove), I played 1 g4 in every game as White and 1...g5 in every game as Black.