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- Instance of
- chess opening
- Named after
- England
- Sport
- chess
- Image
- Chess opening.svg
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- Stack Exchange tag
- chess.stackexchange.com/tags/english-opening
- Portable Game Notation
- c4
- position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation
- rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/2P5/8/PP1PPPPP/RNBQKBNR b
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Encyclopedic overview
Moves1.c4 ECOA10–A39 OriginStaunton vs. Saint-Amant, 1843 Named afterHoward Staunton, English player and World Champion (unofficial)
The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “English opening” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.