Talk:List of chess openings

Benoni

The Benoni is more commonly reached by the move order 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5. Should this be listed as an alternative move order? Kansan (talk) 15:18, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that sequence should be added. I also had some thoughts about transpositions; then I thought better of it! Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:30, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Main openings only?

I think we should list only the more frequent openings. There are hundreds of named opening lines, rarely played, and all listed in Hooper & Whyld at the back. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:44, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree. There are many off-beat lines and I think listing them would take us far beyond the intended scope of this article. I believe that most of the important lines are listed here. The only additions I would recommend making are adding the Scandavian, the Pirc, and possibly the Philidor. Kansan (talk) 18:33, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

I have added these. Kansan (talk) 19:58, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Style issues

Would it be more correct to capitalize "defence" within the context of the name of specific openings? I've noticed that the English Wikipedia has articles doing so, for example, en:French Defence and en:Sicilian Defence. This is also how I normally see them written in chess books.

Also, should we put periods after numbers in move order (for example: 1.e4 rather than 1e4)? Kansan (talk) 19:57, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, anything works so long as we're consistent. I'm generally trying to avoid fussy over-punctuation, which makes typing slow while not improving readability. I don't think we should copy enWP on such details, because our needs are so different. But I can live with upper case for 'defence' if others want it. My only real concern is that, whilst being simple, the content is accurate.

While we're here, another thing we'll run across is different names for openings. I propose to use the English versions such as 'Ruy Lopez', and not 'Spanish opening'. I would say we aim for a few main lines plus a diagram on each opening.

Further, we should add one of the international openings classifications (letter + number). There's two main systems. I will do that bit. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:15, 10 April 2010 (UTC)