Openings by country

Inspired by GPs Scotch Game post-
How many openings/defences/variations are named after countries?
Here are a few;

Austrian Attack
Danish Gambit
Dutch Defence
English
French Defence
Icelandic Gambit
Italian Game (Giuoco Piano)
Latvian Gambit
Spanish Game (Ruy Lopez)


Others?

does anyone patriotically follow a particular opening?

scandinavian defence (almost country 🙂 )
Swiss gambit

scandinavian defense
Portugese variation/gambit(in the scandi)
Sicilian
Scotch
Russian defense(Petroff)
Russian 3 knights
Spanish 3 knights
Polish opening
Yugoslav attack
Hungarian defense
Swiss system....oh wait...😛

toet.

Russian defense (Petrov)
Yougoslav Defense (Pirc)

edit: oops, too late

Catalan (Catalonia was a country in the middle ages and is again autonomous within Spain)

Don't forget the original version of the French Defence:

1. White resigns

Various Indians (King's, Queen's, Nimzo)

Originally posted by Mephisto2
Russian defense (Petrov)
Yougoslav Defense (Pirc)

edit: oops, too late

I've never heard the Pirc called the Yugoslav Defence! 😲

While checking on Wiki I discovered that Pirc is NOT pronounced "perk" ...
oh dear - been playing it for 25 years and always called it "perk" :'(

There is also a versuion of the Pirc called the Czech Defense

Originally posted by wolfgang59
I've never heard the Pirc called the Yugoslav Defence! 😲

While checking on Wiki I discovered that Pirc is NOT pronounced "perk" ...
oh dear - been playing it for 25 years and always called it "perk" :'(

There is also a versuion of the Pirc called the Czech Defense

Didn't know that either.I also thought the Ufimtsev was a variation in the Pirc,but it's yet another name for it.
There's also an Argentinian attack in it.More news to me

toet.

Originally posted by toeternitoe
Didn't know that either.I also thought the Ufimtsev was a variation in the Pirc,but it's yet another name for it.
There's also an Argentinian attack in it.More news to me

toet.

The Argentinian Attack was refuted in the 80s with the Belgrano Counter Attack
😉

Originally posted by wolfgang59
While checking on Wiki I discovered that Pirc is NOT pronounced "perk" ...
oh dear - been playing it for 25 years and always called it "perk"

Yes, not 'perk' at all. I was taught early on to pronounce it 'pe-urts' although the Wiki says 'pearts'.

Incidentally, 'Giuoco' is 'joo-okko' and the alternative 'Gioco' is 'ji-okko' or 'j'okko'; and 'Ruy Lopez' is 'roo'y' (like 'Roy' but with an 'oo'😉 & 'LO-pez', not 'low-pay'

Apparently, Owen's Defence is also known as the 'Greek Defence'.

Also, 1.e4 b6 2.d4 Ba6 is called the Guatemala Defence.

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6 (Mexican Defence)

Other obscure ones from http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/eco.htm (I avoided countries already mentioned) >>
1.d3 (Mieses; Valencia; Venezuelan Opening)
1.Nc3 e5 2.f4 (Irish Attack; Polish Attack)
1.c4 Nc6 (Anglo-Lithuanian Variation, English)
1.d4 Nf6 2.b3 (Basque Opening)
1.d4 Nf6 2.g4 Nxg4 3.f3 Nf6 4.e4 (Maltese Falcon 🙂 )
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.Nf3 Bg7 8.Be2 O-O 9.O-O a6 10.a4 Bg4 (Argentine Attack)
1.e4 g6 2.d4 Nf6 (Norwegian Defence)
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Ba5 6.b4 cxd4 (Armenian Line, French)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a5 (Bulgarian Variation, Ruy Lopez)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 (Keres; Estonian; Howell; Moscow Var)

Game Over
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_openings_named_after_places

trust wiki to spoil it! 😠

America gets no love 🙁

Originally posted by USArmyParatrooper
America gets no love 🙁

There is the Cambridge Springs Defense (a variation of the QGD Slav), named after the location in Pennsylvania. Harry Nelson Pillsbury was the originator, I think, when he played it in 1904, if I remember correctly.

The New York System as a defense against the Reti was introduced in 1924, if I remember- it's basically like a London System, played by black.

And since there are citizens in the US who can claim lineage from every one of those locations, we can safely claim a family relation to just about any of them!