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Bishop's Opening
Overview
Bishop's Opening is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C23.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4, after 3 plies of opening development.
It is a direct variation of King's Pawn Game.
It is the root of 8 named variations, with Anderssen Gambit, Berlin Defense, Boi Variation, and others among the most studied.
Below the direct variations, the full subtree contains 37 documented sub-variations.
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- ECO code
- C23
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 3
- Parent
- King's Pawn Game
- Direct variations
- 8
- Total in subtree
- 37
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Variations (8)
Show all 37 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C23 Anderssen Gambit 6-ply
- C24 Berlin Defense 4-ply
- C23 Boi Variation 4-ply
- C23 Calabrese Countergambit 4-ply
- C23 Khan Gambit 4-ply
- C23 Philidor Counterattack 4-ply
- C23 Thorold Gambit 6-ply
- C30 King's Gambit Declined: Classical, Svenonius Variation 16-ply
- C24 Greco Gambit 5-ply
- C23 Jaenisch Variation 5-ply
- C26 Bishop's Opening: Horwitz Gambit 6-ply
- C24 Bishop's Opening: Kitchener Folly 8-ply
- C24 Bishop's Opening: Krejcik Gambit 9-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: Lewis Gambit 5-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: Lisitsyn Variation 15-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: Lopez Variation 5-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: McDonnell Gambit 5-ply
- C24 Bishop's Opening: Pachman Gambit 7-ply
- C24 Bishop's Opening: Paulsen Defense 6-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: Philidor Variation 5-ply
- C24 Bishop's Opening: Ponziani Gambit 5-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: Stein Gambit 5-ply
- C24 Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid 7-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: del Rio Variation 6-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: Lewis Countergambit 6-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: Lopez Gambit 9-ply
- C23 Lopez Gambit 7-ply
- C23 La Bourdonnais-Denker Gambit 7-ply
- C23 McDonnell Double Gambit 7-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: Pratt Variation 14-ply
- C43 Bishop's Opening: Urusov Gambit 7-ply
- C24 Bishop's Opening: Warsaw Gambit 7-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: Four Pawns Gambit 17-ply
- C23 Bishop's Opening: Lewis Countergambit 8-ply
- C43 Keidansky Gambit 9-ply
- C24 Panov Variation 12-ply
- C23 Walker Variation 9-ply