Chess Openings with Cool Names
There are a number of chess openings that aren’t named after a person or a place. There are a lot of animals, and some other weird names. Here’s a list of interestingly named chess openings.
Animal named chess openings:
- Lion opening
- Lemming defence
- Bird opening (actually named after a person, but who’s counting?)
- Hippopotamus Defense
- Dragon
- Dragadorf
- Accelerated Dragon
- Elephant Gambit
- Orangutan Opening
- Hedgehog System
- Lobster Gambit
- Kangaroo Defence
- Wing gambit
- Pelikan Opening (ok, so it’s not spelled correctly…)
Other oddly named chess openings:
- Fried Liver Attack
- Bayonet Attack
- Corn Stalk Defence
- The Spike
- Grand Prix Attack
- Poison Pawn Variation
- Frankinstein-Dracula Variation
- Wing Gambit
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