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Beginners are advised to use the shortlist on the Clear screen.
Advanced players may also wish to study via the Full Group-List or the Full Alpha-Index.

Titles in bold type below indicate major description pages ("Jump" screens).
Numbers indicate the volume of board-pages in each section (total 10,559 in June 2010).

King's Pawn Openings (5,665)

Open Games (More about) (3,681)
(1.P-K4..P-K4)

King's Gambit (469)

• Kieseritzky Gambit
  
• Muzio Gambit
  
• King's Bishop's Gambit
  
• Falkbeer Counter-Gambit
  
• Classical King's Gambit Declined
  

Giuoco Piano (or Italian Opening) (468)

• Greco (for Möller) Attack
  
• Canal Variation
  
• Evans Gambit (223)
  

Two Knights Defence (175)

• Two Knights Gambit
  
• Max Lange Attack
  

Ruy Lopez (or Spanish Opening) (905)

• Classical Defence
  
• Berlin Defence
  
• Steinitz Defence
  
• Schliemann Defence
  
• Exchange Variation
  
• Steinitz Defence Deferred (106)
  
• Open Morphy Defence (89)
  
• Close Morphy Defence (151)
  
• Marshall Attack
  

Petroff's Defence (192)

• Main continuation
  
• Boden-Kieseritzky Gambit
  

Scotch Game (151)

• Scotch Gambit (49)
  
• Potter Variation
  
• Goring Gambit
  

Vienna Game (214)

• Breyer Variation
  
• Vienna Gambit
  

Four Knights Game (144)

• Symmetrical Variation
  
• Rubinstein Defence
  
• Belgrade Gambit
  
• Scotch Four Knights Game
  

Three Knights Opening (62)
Philidor's Defence (208)

• Jaenisch Counter-Attack
  
• Hanham Variation
  

Ponziani's Opening (41)
Centre Game (125)

• Paulsen Attack
  
• Danish Gambit (56)
  

Latvian Counter-Gambit (27)
Bishop's Opening & Transpositions (234)

• Urusov Gambit
  

Hungarian Defence (25)
Queen's Pawn Counter-Gambit (46)

• Paulsen Gambit
  

Alapin Opening (27)

Semi-Open Games (More about) (1,984)
(1.P-K4..without P-K4 reply)

Alekhine Defence (159)

• Modern Variation
  
• Exchange Variation
  
• Four Pawns' Attack
  

Caro-Kann Defence (202)

• Classical Variation
  
• Panov Attack
  
• Two Knights Variation
  

French Defence (579)

• Classical Variation
  
• Rubinstein Variation
  
• Winaver Variation
  
• Tarrasch Variation
  
• Advance Variation
  

Sicilian Defence (741)

• Orthodox Variation
  
• Dragon Variation
  
• Scheveningen Variation
  
• Najdorf Variation
  
• Closed Variation
  
• Morra Gambit
  
• Rossolimo Variation
  

Pirc Defence (100)

• Classical Variation
  
• Austrian Attack
  

Robatsch (or Modern) Defence (91)
Centre Counter or Scandinavian Def. (65)
Nimzowitsch Defence (47)

Queen's Pawn Openings (3,767)

Close Openings (More about) (1,426)
(1.P-Q4..P-Q4)

  Queen's Gambit (1,158)
  (1.P-Q4..P-Q4, 2.P-QB4)

Orthodox Queen's Gambit Declined

• Orthodox Defence (117)
  
• Manhattan Defence
  
• Cambridge Springs Defence
  
• Lasker's Defence (27)
  
• Exchange Variation
  
• Semi-Tarrasch Variation
  

Tarrasch Defence (62)

• Rubinstein Attack
  

Queen's Gambit Accepted (160)

• Classical Variation
  

Slav Defence (173)

• Open Slav (or Czech) Defence
  
• Slav Exchange Variation
  

Semi-Slav Defence (106)

• Meran Variation
  
• Anti-Meran Gambit
  

Chigorin Defence (57)
Albin Counter-Gambit

  Queen's Pawn Games (268)
  (1.P-Q4..P-Q4, without 2.P-QB4)

Trompowski Opening
Colle System (58)
Richter-Veresov Attack

Semi-Close Openings (More about) (2,341)
(1.P-Q4..without P-Q4 reply)

  Indian Defences (1,606)
  (1.P-Q4..Kt-KB3, 2.P-QB4)

Catalan Opening (104)

• Open Variation
  
• Closed Variation
  

Nimzo-Indian Defence (364)

• Classical Variation
  
• Rubinstein System
  
• Sämisch Variation
  

Queen's Indian Defence (176)

• Petrosian System
  
• Marienbad System
  

Bogoljubow (or Bogo-Indian) Defence
King's Indian Defence (363)

• Classical Variation
  
• Sämisch Variation
  
• Four Pawns' Attack
  
• Averbakh Variation
  
• Fianchetto System
  

Grünfeld Defence (194)

• Classical Variation
  
• Exchange Variation
  
• Neo-Grunfeld Defence
  

Modern Benoni Defence (153)

• Blumenfeld Counter-Gambit
  
• Benko Gambit
  

  Non-Indian Defences (735)
  (Other 1.P-Q4..with/without Kt-KB3 reply)

Dutch Defence (260)

• Leningrad System
  
• Stonewall Variation
  
• Staunton Gambit
  

Budapest Defence (203)
Old Benoni Defence

Flank Openings (1,123)

English Opening (497)

• Four Knights Variation
  
• Closed Variation
  
• Symmetrical Variation
  
• Hedgehog Variation
  
• Transpositions out (215)
  

Zuckertort (for Reti) Opening (317)

• Reti Opening
  
• Barcza Opening (142)
  
• Neo-Catalan Opening
  

Larsen's Opening
Bird's Opening (83)

• From's Gambit
  

Heinrichsen (or Baltic) Opg. (41)