Talk:List of chess openings

message: All the opening pages should have an external link to chessgames.com on the appropiate openings page. 70.111.218.254 14:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  chessgames.com links 

message: I'm a little confused about the classification of games beginning with e4.  In the index, it says that C20-C99 is all Double King's Pawn games (1.e4 e5), but in the long list, C20 is given as the King's pawn game (1. e4).  Since there are numerous classification codes for 1. e4 that exist outside the C20-c99 range, it seems like C20 should probably be a straight Double King's Pawn game, with the appropriate moves and link.  This is especially the case becaue B00 is listed as a simple King's Pawn game.
: The C20 openings aare all double king pawn openings, 1. e4 e5.  The B00 openings are 1. e4 but not 1... e5, a KP opening, but not a double KP opening.  Bubba73 (talk), 00:27, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I revised B00.  The best way to think of it is that C20 contains double KP openings not covered elsewhere and then B00 contains KP games not covered elsewhere.  Bubba73 (talk), 01:24, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  King's Pawn Games 

message: What do you think about indenting codes that don't end in a zero, since that is the way they are organized in the book.  For example:
*A10 English Opening
:*A11 English, Caro-Kann defensive system
:*A12 English, Caro-Kann defensive system
:*A13 English Opening
:*A14 English, Neo-Catalan declined
:*A15 English, 1...Nf6 (Anglo-Indian defence)
:*A16 English Opening
:*A17 English Opening, Hedgehog Defence
:*A18 English, Mikenas-Carls variation
:*A19 English, Mikenas-Carls, Sicilian variation
*A20 English Opening
and
*B70 Sicilian, Dragon variation
:*B71 Sicilian, Dragon, Levenfish variation
:*B72 Sicilian, Dragon, 6.Be3
:*B73 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical, 8.O-O
:*B74 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical, 9.Nb3
:*B75 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav attack
:*B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav attack, 7...O-O
:*B77 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav attack, 9.Bc4
:*B78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav attack, 10.O-O-O
:*B79 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav attack, 12.h4
*B80 Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation
:*B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres attack
:*B82 Sicilian, Scheveningen, 6.f4
:*B83 Sicilian, Scheveningen, 6.Be2
:*B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen (Paulsen), Classical variation
:*B85 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Classical variation with ...Qc7 and ...Nc6
etc.  And maybe the redundant uses of "English", "Sicilian, Dragon" and "Sicilian Scheveningen" can be eliminated too, since it is clear from the structure.  Bubba73 (talk), 00:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  indenting? 

message: This whole section ends up being a big advertising campaign for chessgames.com.
All the diagrams are accompanied by links to their website which then quickly pops up a STOP sign requesting membership for $29 per year.
This really needs to be expunged. Even if what they provide was really valuable - it isn't - putting it on a wiki page is inappropriate  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.68.11.35 (talk) 23:41, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki as an advertising hook? 

message: Hi, 
I think a short overview section right after the lead secion could be an improvement. Now each volume section has an individual overview part. If one wants to find a particular opening and does not know which openings are included in each volume, one has to through each volume. Having an overview right at the start could make that unnecessary and help to find openings more quickly. What are your thoughts on this? 
Regards, 75.159.195.203 (talk) 19:52, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about a short overview section right after the lead secion? 

message: A lot of the links made around the Benoni do not exist. Please fix this, either by having these red links link to the "Benoni Defense#ECO" or creating redirects with these links' titles. I can't do this, of course, because I am an unregistered user. 108.26.189.248 (talk) 14:38, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red links around Benoni (A70) 

message: The Réti's Opening article is about 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4, while the Zukertort's Opening article is about everything starting with 1.Nf3 (including the Réti's). The most common name for 1.Nf3 is "Réti", even if everybody knows that it is not the properly correct name, in the other hand Zukertort is completely ignored as opening name, so what should we do? I don't know, maybe just call it "Zukertort–Réti Opening"? Or put a generic name, like "King's Knight Opening". In any case whatever will be decided the link aside A04 is wrong and should be fixed in order to link to the Zukertort's page, not the Réti's. Only the A09 should link to the "real" Réti's. --Little bishop (talk) 16:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  A04: Réti or Zukertort? The link is wrong! 

message: Under A – Flank openings, the second bullet point (1.d4 without 1...d5 or 1...Nf6: Atypical replies to 1.d4 (A40–A44)) does include the Dutch Defence 1. d4 f5. The Dutch Defence is however already covered in the following fifth bullet point (1.d4 f5: Dutch Defence (A80–A99)).
As for "B – Semi-Open Games other than the French Defense" a bullet point should exclude openings listed otherwise. Here the Sicilian Defence is correctly excluded in the first bullet point (1.e4 without 1...c5, 1...e6 or 1...e5 (B00–B19)) as covered in the second bullet point (1.e4 c5: Sicilian Defence (B20–B99)).
To follow the same presentation style "1.d4 without 1...d5 or 1...Nf6: Atypical replies to 1.d4 (A40–A44)" must be changed to "1.d4 without 1...d5, 1...Nf6 or 1...f5: Atypical replies to 1.d4 (A40–A44)".
The same text is used on Main ECO codes - A so the comment applies to this page as well. --Dlb (talk) 01:23, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: A – Flank openings - Dutch Defence not excluded before mentioned

message: Given how this page is organized, as well as the chess infobox, I've found it very hard to find pages for what should be the simplest thing in chess openings, being the 20 first moves White can make. Somehow, I think these 20 should all be put together in some sort of list, as currently, I've found it pretty cumbersome to find them when I don't know them by name. In this page they're fairly close together but I still feel it's a bit cluttered and unnecessarily difficult to find these. Harmonia per misericordia. OmegaFallon (talk) 23:01, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for organization