List of chess openings named after places

Many of the 1,327 named chess openings and variants listed by The Oxford Companion to Chess are named for geographic places.[1]

This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.
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  1. ^ Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1996) [First pub. 1992], The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 461–480, ISBN 0-19-280049-3