Talk:Chess opening

History?

just a suggestion: maybe there could be history of openings section. Some openings must be newer than others. And the popularity of openings must have changed over time. Something along these lines may be interesting to read. I'm just starting to sketch out some things in the shogi world (Shogi_opening#History_of_opening_research) and didnt see anything similar here. – ishwar  (speak) 00:22, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Nice way to summarize openings

4	a4	b4	c4	d4	e4	f4	g4	h4
3	a3 or Na3	b3	c3 or Nc3	d3	e3	f3 or Nf3	g3	h3 or Nh3
	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h

This is how I liked to see the opening information presented. By hovering over the links, you can also quiz yourself about the move names. Jason Quinn (talk) 16:17, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

In practice the sensible flank openings often transpose; 1.g3 has little identity of its own for example. Double sharp (talk) 15:34, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Changing pronouns in openings

It seems to me that the vast majority of the openings here often refer to the player with he/his pronouns instead of they/their suggested by MOS:GNL. Toron4 (talk) 05:48, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

I took a crack at this Popsofctown (talk) 05:14, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

first move graph

Hi. I made a bar graph of the 1st move percentage for the wikibook, so I mention it here in case you are interested. File:Chess firstMove.png However, I did include a non-master database into the average, which (if you are like most chess books) may displease you. Anyway, yall can use it or not. – ishwar  (speak) 17:00, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Article requires chess knowledge

For me as a non-chess player, the meaning of the characters in the move sequence is unclear. Probably add some non-specialist explaination or at least a reference so people like me could follow this. 84.118.224.20 (talk) 09:28, 26 November 2024 (UTC)