List of chess openings named after people
The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants.[ 1] Chess players' names are the most common sources of opening names. The name given to an opening is not always that of the first player to adopt it; often an opening is named for the player who was one of the first to popularise it or to publish analysis of it.
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See also
References
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^ traditionally attributed to Ruy López de Segura
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^ "King's Gambit: Declined, Keene Defense (C30)" . Chess.com. Retrieved 2022-08-27 .
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^ original spelling
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^ Kaissiber 5, p. 35
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