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Moves | 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.g3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ECO | C44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Origin | Konstantinopolsky vs. Ragozin (Moscow, 1956) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Named after | Alexander Konstantinopolsky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent | King's Knight Opening |
The Konstantinopolsky Opening is a rarely played chess opening that begins with the following moves:
According to The Oxford Companion to Chess , the Konstantinopolsky Opening was introduced to master play in a game between Alexander Konstantinopolsky and Viacheslav Ragozin in a team championship in Moscow in 1956. [1]
The name дебют Константинопольского (lit. 'Konstantinopolsky's opening') was used by David Bronstein in his book 200 Open Games (published in Russian in 1970). Bronstein employed the opening against Levente Lengyel in the 1964 Interzonal in Amsterdam. [2] [3] [4]
The opening has been described as a form of "anti-preparation" that takes the game " out of book ". [5]