Talk:Chess opening

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Can you be specific what you mean (give example)? Thx. --IHTS (talk) 04:53, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

I made an edit to use lowercase for "king's pawn openings", "queen's pawn openings", and "others". Especially because they are plurals, these seem to be categories and thus common nouns. My edit was reverted by someone saying these are proper nouns. That seems incorrect to me. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 02:29, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

I agree that these are common nouns. They are descriptive phrases (openings that start by pushing the king's pawn, etc) not phrases that are meaningful only because they are the name of something (Giuoco Piano, which I guess literally does have a meaning "quiet game" in Italian but in English-language usage is purely a name not a descriptive phrase). —David Eppstein (talk) 02:38, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, I was mistaken. King's Pawn Game is capitalized, but king's pawn openings is not. BarrelProof was correct. Piping the links makes lower case appropriate. Quale (talk) 03:00, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 04:38, 5 February 2025 (UTC)