Openings

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Bill Wall's list of chess opening names
Alphabetical list of almost 1500 openings & variations, including moves.

Bishop's Opening, Urusov Gambit
Well done & extensive site devoted to the Urusov Gambit in the Bishop's opening.

Chess Openings
An interactive series of +9,000 unique board positions, from first moves through to full development of pieces, covering all major openings, defences and variations.

Chess Publishing
Excellent site with subscription fee for detailed GM analysis of most openings, but quite a bit of free material.

Chess Siberia Openings
List of ECO codes and opening names with several well annotated games from several of the openings.

Diemer-Duhm Gambit
Games, analysis, articles & news about this gambit, which can follow from the French or QGD.

Exeter Chess Club
An excellent resource with years of archived pages. Use their search function to find information on specific openings. Here are some examples:
- adventures with the Blackmar-Diemar
- any similar black and white opening systems?
- choosing an opening repertoire
- complete ECO codes
- four choices in the opening
- ideas behind the King's Gambit
- learning opening lines

French Defense Online

Halloween Attack in the Four Knights game
Lots of games, analysis, discussions, etc. about this opening variation.

The Lion - The Black Weapon
The Lion is no opening but an opening system. It is called after *Leo* Jansen, a Dutch player who developed the system

Marek's 1.b4! World
Devoted to the Orangutan Opening, aka the Sokolski

MECCA Chess Encyclopedia - ECO Codes
Names & moves from each of the ECO codes.

Online-Chess
IM Kalin Karakehajov's opening analysis, in Chessbase format (see bottom of page)

Tom's BDG Pages
A blog devoted to the Blackmar-Diemar gambit

The World of Grob's Attack (A00) 1.g4!
intro, theory, ideas, combos, games, and more, all devoted to the Grob

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