ECO code

The actual opening classification was developed in the middle of 1980’s. The full opening repertoire is divided in 5 groups of 100 codes each: A- contains the irregular openings, the Reti, English, Benoni systems and Dutch Defence; B- contains the semi-open games including the Caro-Kann, the French and the Sicilian. C-contains the open games with the King Gambit, Petroff and Spanish Opening; D-contains the closed games with Queen’s Gambit, Slave and Gruenfeld and finally E- contains the Indian systems with the Catalan, Nimzo-Indian, Queen’s Indian and King’s Indian.

I don’t particularly like being searched electronically. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in any other sport. It is fundamentally anti-chess, and I think the people who are behind this decision need their heads looked at! They are sick! They are ruining the very beauty that is chess. Nigel Short
2016
Man has no chance to win against the modern computer. And, by and large, a confrontation between two individuals is more interesting. Vladimir Kramnik
2015
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents. Yury Balashov
I have often written that Karpov is like an iceberg. Well, Kasparov was the Titanic. Alexander Roshal
“Chess is the struggle against the error.” Johannes Zukertort

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