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• Balkan Gambit
  The Balkan Gambit is any opening sending Trieste to Albania and Budapest to Serbia. The gambit here is that Richard Sharp's name for the opening F Tri-Alb, A Bud-Ser, A Vie-Boh. Also known as Fisher's Folly.
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• Manche Openings
  ...pening that sends the fleet into the English Channel is known as a Menache Opening or English Attack. These openings account for about one quarter of all Fre ...it is unlikely to result in a centre gain for France (unlike the Atlantic Opening's F Bre-MAO), and compromises an assault on England by most likely pinning
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• Western Opening
  ...ilds a fleet in Liverpool and overwhelms France with seapower. The Western opening is extremely risky, and only undertaken with complete trust in the German,
  751 bytes (123 words) - 14:26, 7 January 2008
• The Iberian Gambit
  ..." opening A Mar S A Par-Bur, and the other is known simply as the Burgundy opening with A Mar-Spa. Both these openings offer defense against a German strike i ...pening provides A Mar-Spa, F Bre-Mid, and A Par-Pic, known as the "Picardy Opening." This is subtly pro-German, as it hints to an accomodation over Burgundy w
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• The Sealion Opening
  ...hat make the opening work. This is even more so in the case of the Sealion Opening names after the German invasion plans of England in World War II. ...he Italians going on a long slow road to the East, hopfully a Lepanto type opening. he also wants to see the English go down like a rock and is willling to ta
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• Roadhog
  Any Austrian opening that orders Trieste to HOLD and Budapest to Rumania.
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• Northern Opening
  '''NORTHERN OPENING (THE YORKSHIRE OPENING)''' Richard Sharp's name for the opening F Lon-NTH and F Edi-NWG. There are four named variations:
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• French Openings
  ...m. In general, a valid French strategy is to get Spain and Portugal in the opening, even at the price of losing a home center. For France, such a loss is freq *[[An Introduction to French Opening Strategy]] by [[Richard Hucknall]]
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• Blue Water
  ...z (a.k.a. the Italian Attack) is recognized as a variant of the Blue Water Opening. '''BLUE WATER OPENING, VON METZKE BLITZ'''
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• Atlantic Openings
  Any opening sending the Brest fleet to the Mid-Atlantic Ocean. There are a many named v *[[Atlantic Openings#Maginot Opening|Maginot Opening]]
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• Split Opening
  Richard Sharp's name for the opening F Lon-ENG and F Edi-NWG. There are three named variations: the Edinburgh, t
  178 bytes (29 words) - 14:32, 7 January 2008
• Tyrolese Gambit
  Richard Sharp's name for the opening: F Tri-Alb, A Bud-Tri, A Vie-Tyr.
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• The Fiafranchetto
  An opening to remember or regret by ...eeded. If Germany, moves to Burgundy and England moves to the Channel, the opening will fail horribly…..but France can still recover if he has the wits and
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• Naming the Openings
  ..., "Defence" or "Gambit", as the case might be; everything else was simply "Opening". Here are some examples with the frequencies taken from New Statsman. ...5%), but if the army goes elsewhere the fleet moves constitute the Belgian Opening, with the usual Edinburgh and Yorkshire Variations (0.9% and 20.3%).
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• Italian Openings
  *Austrian Attack Opening (A Rom-Ven, A Ven-Tri)
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• North Sea Opening
  Richard Sharp's name for the opening in which England orders A Lvp-Yor, sends one fleet to the North Sea and doe
  368 bytes (61 words) - 14:32, 7 January 2008
• Norman Openings
  Any French Opening sending the fleet to Picardy. The typical intent is a pro-English occupatio
  343 bytes (54 words) - 13:40, 31 March 2008
• Berlin Defense
  Any German opening in which Berlin is ordered to HOLD. These openings guard against a Russian
  226 bytes (35 words) - 23:11, 31 March 2008
• The Octopus
  This is the name I give to the opening I regularly play as Russia, which is very little favoured by anyone else - (1) Turkey's best chance of winning, and most active opening, is A(Con)-Bul, F(Ank)-BLA, A(Smy)-Arm - it's also by far the most popular,
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• Is The Alpine Chicken A Tasty Bird
  Richard Sharp christened the Italian Opening A(Ven)-Pie, A(Rom)-Ven, F(Nap)-ION as the Alpine Chicken "Because it shows The stats show that the Chicken is the third most common Italian opening, used overall 11.64% of the time. However, that figure masks a 70’s popul
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