Unorthodox Openings

by Bill Wall

1.a3 Anderssen's Opening
1.Na3 Durkin (Sodium Attack) Opening
1.a4 Crab (Meadow Hay or Ware) Opening
1.b3 Larsen's Opening
1.b4 Orangutan Opening
1.c3 Saragossa (Hempel) Opening
1.Nc3 Dunst (Heinrichsen) Opening
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 Golombek Defense
1.d3 Mieses Opening
1.d4 a6
1.d4 b5 Polish Defense
1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.e4 Diemer-Duhm Gambit
1.d4 d5 2.c4 g6 Queen's Gambit Declined, Alekhine Defense
1.d4 d5 2.Qd3 Amazon Attack
1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 Blackmar Gambit
1.d4 d5 2.f4 Mason Attack
1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Sarratt Attack
1.d4 d5 2.Bg5 Levitsky (Zot) Opening
1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 Englund Defense, Soller Gambit
1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+ Kangaroo
1.d4 f5 2.e4Staunton Gambit
1.d4 f5 2.g4 Dutch Defense, Krejcik Gambit
1.d4 f5 2.Bg5 Dutch Defense, Hopton Variation
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 Budapest Traps
1.d4 Nf6 2.d5 Pawn Push Variation
1.d4 Nf6 2.e4 Omega Gambit
1.e3 Vant Kruy's Opening
1.e4 a5 Ware's (Cornstalk) Defense
1.e4 a6 Saint George (Birmingham) Defense
1.e4 Na6 Lemming Defense
1.e4 b6 Owen's Defense
1.e4 c5 2.a3 Sicilian, Mengarini Variation
1.e4 c5 2.b3 Sicilian, Snyder Variation
1.e4 c5 2.b4 cxb4 Sicilian, Wing Gambit
1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd5 Sicilian, Smith-Morra Gambit
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Qa5 Sicilian, Mongoose Variation
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 b6 Sicilian, Katalymov Variation
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Sicilian, Rossolimo
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Qc7 Sicilian, Paulsen Variation
1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Qf3 Caro-Kann, Goldman Variation
1.e4 c6 2.Bc4 Caro-Kann, Hillbilly Attack
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.f3 Caro-Kann, Maroczy Variation
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 Scandanavian, Gublinksy Variation
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.c4 e6 Scandanavian, Icelandic Variation
1.e4 e5 2.a3 Mengarini Opening
1.e4 e5 2.Bb5 Portuguese Opening
1.e4 e5 2.c3 Lopez (Staunton, Macleod) Opening
1.e4 e5 2.c4 Whale Opening
1.e4 e5 2.d3 Leonardis (Indian) Opening
1.e4 e5 2.Bd3 Tortoise Opening
1.e4 e5 2.Ne2 Alapin Opening
1.e4 e5 2.f3 King's Head Opening
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 d5 Ruy Lopez, Marshall Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 Ruy Lopez, Bird
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.h3 Philidor's Defense, Greco Variation
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Qe7 Gunderam Defense
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 Damiano Defense
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nxf7 Cochrane Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Qf6 Greco Defense
1.e4 e5 2.Qf3 Napoleon's Opening
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.b3 Orsini Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bb5 Schurig Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nc3 Keres (Mason) Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.d4 Polerio (Steinitz) Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Qe2 Basman (Bilguer) Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Be2 Lesser Bishop Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Ne2 Paris Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Qf3 Breyer (Hungarian) Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.h4 Leonardo (Stamma) Gambit
1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Danvers (Queen Attack) Opening
1.e4 e6 2.b3 Reti (Horowitz) Variation, French
1.e4 e6 2.Qe2 Chigorin Variation, French
1.e4 e6 2.Ne2 2.Ne2 variation, French
1.e4 e6 2.e5 Steinitz Attack, French
1.e4 e6 2.f4 La Bourdonnais Variation, French
1.e4 f5 Fred (Tiers or Duras) Defense
1.e4 f6 Barnes Defense
1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Ne4 Alekhine's Defense, Mokele Variation
1.e4 g5 Borg (Basman) Defense
1.e4 h5 Pickering (Goldsmith) Defense
1.e4 h6 Carr Defense
1.e4 Nh6 Adams (Wild Bull) Defense
1.f3 Barnes (Gedult) Opening
1.Nf3 d5 2.b4 Santasiere's Folly
1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 From Gambit
1.g4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Grob
1.h3 Clemenz's Opening
1.Nh3 Amar or Paris Opening
1.h4 Kadas (Despres) Opening