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English Opening
English + opening, from its use by English world champion Howard Staunton.
A compound of English + opening
Proto-West Germanic *Angli ‘an Angle’
Old English Engle ‘the Angles’
Old English Englisċ ‘of the Angles’
Middle English Englisch ‘of England’
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The story
English + opening, from its use by English world champion Howard Staunton.
Today it means
noun A chess opening in which white begins by playing 1.c4, moving his queen bishop's pawn to the fourth rank.
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Etymograph / English Opening