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CuzinVinny

Hi! 

Let's go over the most coolest, most funniest, most amazingly awesomesaucy chess opening names in the entire 3000 year history of chess! I picked my top ten after going to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_openings and going through the entire list!

GOD I LOVE WIKIPEDIA

Enough with the babble, I will now present y'all my favorite chess opening names, starting at number 10 and going down down down to number 1, the most phenomenal chess name EVER!! Please share your own thoughts on the most amazing chess names, there are too many openings to count, you will surely find one you find HILARIOUS.

MOST AWESOME CHESS OPENING NAMES

10. Anderssen's Opening, Creepy Crawly Formation: 1. a3 e5 2. h3 d5

 O.M.G Creepy Crawly? What is this a caterpillar! LOL Too funny, Mr.Anderssen. (Matrix pun)

 

9. Hippopotamus Defence

Reminds me of my ex. But seriously, LOLOL a hippo has involment in chess? :P

 

8. B21 Sicilian, Grand Prix Attack

This is a GRAND attack on Mario Kart's PRIX lolzzz. NASCARRRR

 

7. B97 Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Qb6 including Poisoned Pawn Variation

Poison? LOL its funny, 'cause you just accepted a pawn that was ILL >:D Have fun taking care of a hospital patient!

 

6. Anti-neo-Orthodox Variation

So...your against the matrix, and your against the Church? BAH HUMBUG

 

5. Kangaroo Defense 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+

One word: AUSTRALIA

 

4. Wild Bull Defense 1.e4 Nh6

Yee Haw Lets go for a night on the town and go ride BULLS GONE WILD

 

3. C45 Scotch Game

BOTTOMS UP, LETS GO DRINK TIL WE THROW UP IN A URINAL DOWNTOWN THAT HAVENT BEEN CLEANED IN YEARS EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE TIME A JANITOR WAS FEELING NICE AND GAVE THE CLUB MANAGER A FREE URINAL CLEANING...

 

2. Sicilian Pterodactyl 1.e4 g6 2.Nf3 Bg7 3.d4 c5

:'D Their might not be no better existance in the world then an Ancient Italian Dinosaur. I weep at the amount of epicness this name gives. My heart goes out to whoever came up with this name.

 

1. Hyper accelerated dragon

A SUPER FAST MEGA CHARGED ULTRA ASIAN MYTHICAL CREATURE!!!! Is the chess world serious@!#$!!!??? A Hyper accelerating dragon?? You mean it accelerates at hyper speed? Whaaaaat! YOU MEAN, TO TELL ME, DRAGONS ACCELERATE, HYPERLY? BWAHAHAAAAAAA

 


And there you go! Please, add your own favorite opening names! I must know if ANYTHING can match with the epicness of an Italian Dinosaur, or a dragon that travels at hyper speeds accelerating to an endless infinity.

 
Ben_Dubuque

I personaly like the fried liver attack its fun to play against computers who then move their king to g8 because you can checkmate with Qxd5;Qxd5 Bxd5;Be6 Bxe6#

draconlord

Black Knight Tango.

Sicilian Defense:Mongoose Variation

Drunken King's Gambit

mrguy888

No more C45 for you, sir.

nxavar

In Sicilian Defence there's Dragon, Accelerated Dragon, and Hyper Accelerated Dragon. It means that a) we start a variation that produces a certain position, b) we try to bring the key position of the variation earlier, and c) we actually force the position in questing to come about immediately. I guess chess players were only thinking of giving some name to the variation and disregarded its plain English meaning. No wonder why many top chessplayers are said to be cut off from the world and a little bit disillutional. Fischer is the first that comes to mind and Kasparov follows.

Jadeite

Frankenstien-Dracula, anyone?

NimzoRoy

Frankenstein-Dracula Variation (Vienna Game variation)

Fried Liver Attack (Two Dts Defense Variation)

Santasiere's Folly (1.Nf3 d5 2.b4)

Gulam Kassim Gambit (var of KGA)

Therkatz-Herzog Variation ( a subvariation of the Moller Attack, Guico Piano)

Orangutan Opening (1.b4, named in honor of an inmate of the NYC zoo by Dr Tartakower)

See The Oxford Companion to Chess by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld pp. 390-404 for hundreds more variations you never heard of! (me neither!)

DrSpudnik

Elephant Gambit.

But how many elephants do you give up before your position becomes unstable? Undecided

SchachMatt

The Polar Bear!

white plays

f4 Nf3 g3 Bg2 pretty much whatever black plays.  It's a reversed Leningrad Dutch.  Although I always wanted to know when the Dutch invaded the Soviet Union. 

gbidari

The Fred 1.e4 f5??

Ben_Dubuque

I actually saw a guy play this against me 1.e4 e5 2.ke2?! f5( i was hoping for him to play Nf3 so i could position into the Latvian gambit but alas we get a new opening name from this) he played king moves for the next five turns I finaly found a name for this and it is (drum roll please) The Wasted King attack heres the game for those who want to see it ( Its to silly to make up k)

mrguy888
jetfighter13 wrote:

I actually saw a guy play this against me 1.e4 e5 2.ke2?! f5( i was hoping for him to play Nf3 so i could position into the Latvian gambit but alas we get a new opening name from this) he played king moves for the next five turns I finaly found a name for this and it is (drum roll please) The Wasted King attack


That is called the bongcloud.

furtiveking
mrguy888 wrote:
jetfighter13 wrote:

I actually saw a guy play this against me 1.e4 e5 2.ke2?! f5( i was hoping for him to play Nf3 so i could position into the Latvian gambit but alas we get a new opening name from this) he played king moves for the next five turns I finaly found a name for this and it is (drum roll please) The Wasted King attack


That is called the bongcloud.


agreed, that's definately the bongcloud.

Ben_Dubuque

i still think wasted king attack is funnier because its more descriptive also here is another that refrenced Napoleons inability to keep his queen in his own bed the Napoleon Opening  1e4 e5 2Qf3 hoping for the scholors mate

heinzie

Has the Bongcloud been mentioned yet?

TicklyTim

The Monkey's Bum variation in the Modern

Gil-Gandel
heinzie wrote:

Has the Bongcloud been mentioned yet?


...says the Dutchman. Laughing

MyCowsCanFly

The one that never fails to bring me a smile is the "Paleface Attack" as a respone to the King's "Indian" Defense. The implied misuse of the word "Indian" is fun.

Another response to the King's Indian Defense is the "Tarzan."

Arctor
heinzie wrote:

Has the Bongcloud been mentioned yet?


 You mean the Wasted King Attack?

qixel

Englund Attack, Nightmare on Elm Street Variation