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Bishop's Opening — opening family

41 catalogued lines · ECO C23–C43

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The shortest catalogued line of the family runs 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 — the position below. The continuation chips count how many catalogued lines extend this head with each next move; any branch can be explored on the interactive tree and played against the engine from there.

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Main continuations

Bc5 · 16Nf6 · 13b5 · 2c6 · 2f5 · 2d5 · 1

All 41 lines

NameECOMain line length
Bishop's OpeningC233 plies
Bishop's Opening: Calabrese CountergambitC234 plies
Bishop's Opening: Khan GambitC234 plies
Bishop's Opening: Philidor CounterattackC234 plies
Bishop's Opening: Boi VariationC234 plies
Bishop's Opening: Berlin DefenseC244 plies
Bishop's Opening: Calabrese Countergambit, Jaenisch VariationC235 plies
Bishop's Opening: McDonnell GambitC235 plies
Bishop's Opening: Stein GambitC235 plies
Bishop's Opening: Philidor VariationC235 plies
Bishop's Opening: Lewis GambitC235 plies
Bishop's Opening: Ponziani GambitC245 plies
Bishop's Opening: Berlin Defense, Greco GambitC245 plies
Bishop's Opening: Lopez VariationC235 plies
Bishop's Opening: Lewis CountergambitC236 plies
Bishop's Opening: Paulsen DefenseC246 plies
Bishop's Opening: Anderssen GambitC236 plies
Bishop's Opening: del Rio VariationC236 plies
Bishop's Opening: Thorold GambitC236 plies
Bishop's Opening: Horwitz GambitC266 plies
Bishop's Opening: McDonnell Gambit, La Bourdonnais-Denker GambitC237 plies
Bishop's Opening: McDonnell Gambit, McDonnell Double GambitC237 plies
Bishop's Opening: Lopez Variation, Lopez GambitC237 plies
Bishop's Opening: Warsaw GambitC247 plies
Bishop's Opening: Vienna HybridC247 plies
Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid, Spielmann AttackC267 plies
Bishop's Opening: Urusov GambitC437 plies
Bishop's Opening: Boden-Kieseritzky GambitC277 plies
Bishop's Opening: Pachman GambitC247 plies
Bishop's Opening: Lewis CountergambitC238 plies
Bishop's Opening: Kitchener FollyC248 plies
Bishop's Opening: Boden-Kieseritzky Gambit, Lichtenhein DefenseC278 plies
Bishop's Opening: Lopez GambitC239 plies
Bishop's Opening: Lewis Countergambit, Walker VariationC239 plies
Bishop's Opening: Krejcik GambitC249 plies
Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid, Hromádka VariationC289 plies
Bishop's Opening: Urusov Gambit, Keidansky GambitC439 plies
Bishop's Opening: Urusov Gambit, Panov VariationC2412 plies
Bishop's Opening: Pratt VariationC2314 plies
Bishop's Opening: Lisitsyn VariationC2315 plies
Bishop's Opening: Four Pawns GambitC2317 plies