How to Spot the English Opening in a Chess Game

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So the last opening we're going to be looking at is the English opening. And the English opening remains very popular. And sometimes as you develop as a chess player, it becomes useful to play these less, slightly less common openings because there is a chance that your opponent will be less familiar with them, and that you might get some sort of early breakthrough. Anyway, this is characterized by moving the white Pawn out on the first move to Queen's Bishop four. And there are, as usual, a number of responses that black can make. Probably the most popular one at the moment is the Knight to King's Bishop three. And thereafter, white will typically play Knight to Queen's Bishop three. Different things can happen at this point. And one thing that does tend to happen a lot is that black will play Pawn to King's four. And if white follows suit, it tends to bring about a situation which is a kind of reverse Sicilian. And one thing to note about all of these openings, is that they can very easily transpose into other openings. So you might play one opening, but you might finish up actually getting into the subsequent game that arises from a completely different opening. And you'll particularly find that with this English game does very frequently now transpose into the Sicilian or reverse Sicilian attack.

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