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Bishop's Opening
Features:
🔀
Transpositional.
Commonly transposes into other openings.
🔱
Flexible.
May become wildly sharp, or slow and positional.
⏳
Theoretical.
Theoretical. Requires concrete opening preparation.
☘
Attainable.
Frequent opportunities to play this opening.
Description:
The Bishop's Opening is a line in the Open Game where White commits their light-square bishop relatively early, taking aim at f7. Since Bc4 is a common move in several openings, it is fairly common for the Bishop's Opening to transpose.
Features:
🔀
Transpositional.
Commonly transposes into other openings.
🔱
Flexible.
May become wildly sharp, or slow and positional.
⏳
Theoretical.
Theoretical. Requires concrete opening preparation.
☘
Attainable.
Frequent opportunities to play this opening.
Motifs:
Statistically, it is most common for the game to reach slower, closed Italian-like positions where Black has not played ...Nc6 yet.
- However, the Bishop's Opening also offers White many ways to reach more aggressive positions, either by transposition or via independent variations (e.g. the Urusov Gambit).
Like the Vienna Game, White has not played Nf3 yet, reserving the possibility of playing the King's Gambit–style pawn break f4.
Common lines:
- 3.d3 — Main Line
Commonly transposes into a large set of other openings, e.g. Italian Game, Vienna Game, King's Gambit, Petrov's Defense, ...
