The Inverted Hungarian Opening or Tayler Opening is an uncommon
chess opening that starts with the moves:
:1.
e4 e5
:2.
Nf3 Nc6
:3.
Be2
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It is so-named because the position of White's bishop on e2 resembles that of Black's bishop on e7 in the
Hungarian Defense. "This opening is also known as the
Inverted Hanham and was played most prominently by
Tartakower against
Bogoljubow at London 1922."
Description
The Inverted Hungarian is even rarer than the already very uncommon Hungarian Defense, although it is perfectly for White. It may appeal to White players who wish to avoid extensively analyzed
double king pawn openings such as the
Ruy Lopez, and to those who favor defensive positional maneuvering battles as also often result from the Hungarian Defense. With the
advantage of the first move, White has greater latitude to play moves that are not objectively the strongest without incurring disadvantage.
Since White's third move 3.Be2 makes no threats, there are many satisfactory replies for Black. If White plays a setup resembling the Black side of the Hanham Variation of the
Philidor Defense
The Philidor Defence (or Philidor's Defence) is a chess opening characterised by the moves:
:1. e4 e5
:2. Nf3 d6
The opening is named after the famous 18th-century player François-André Danican Philidor, who advocated it as an alternativ ...
(3...Nf6 4.d3 d5 5.Nbd2), the opening is sometimes called the Inverted Hanham Opening.
After 3...Nf6, John Tayler introduced the line 4.d4 and published analysis in ''Chess'', February–March 1981. The
gambit
A gambit (from Italian , the act of tripping someone with the leg to make them fall) is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices with the aim of achieving a subsequent advantage.
The word '' gambit'' is also sometimes used to describe sim ...
was picked up by
Michael Basman
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who further developed it, the critical line runs: 4...exd4 5.e5 Ng4 6.0-0 (6.Bf4 d6) 6...Be7 (6...Ngxe5 7.Nxe5 Nxe5 8.Qxd4 Nc6 9.Qc3 and Black has problems with ; Basman) 7.Nxd4 Ngxe5 8.f4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Ng6! 10.f5 (10.Qxg7 Bf6 11.Qh6!?) 10...Bf6 11.Qf2 Ne7.
See also
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List of chess openings
This is a list of chess openings, organized by the ''Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings'' () code. In 1966, Chess Informant categorized the chess openings into five broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken down into one hundred subcat ...
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List of chess openings named after places
Below is a list of chess openings named after places. ''The Oxford Companion to Chess'' lists 1,327 named chess openings and variants. Many of them are named for geographic places.
A
*Aachen Gambit of the Nimzowitsch Defense 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3 ...
Citations
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