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  • Why no German opening?

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 7 13:11:14 2016
    Can you be such an ignorant troll? you were born a fool or just practice it too much?

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 29 09:25:34 2019
    Hey,
    there are a lot of Openings named after german cities and quite a lot of them once where states of the Holy Roman Empire. Bavaria, Westphalia and Prussia were/are regions of Germany. So there not being a German opening is down to there not being a
    Germany till 1871, I'd guess.
    Just listed the different Variations etc. I found on Wikipedia down below for reference.

    Aachen Gambit
    Bavarian Gambit
    Berlin Variation
    Bremen Variation
    Breslau Variation (Untill the end of WWII the region of Silesia was German) Cologne Gambit
    Dresden Opening
    Duisburg Gambit
    Frankfurt Variation
    German Defense
    Kiel Variation
    Leipzig Gambit
    Mannheim Variation
    Nuremberg Variation
    Prussian Game
    Tübingen Gambit
    Westphalia Defence
    Wiesbaden Variation

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 1 22:02:02 2020
    Bs"d

    "Why no German opening?"

    Because everybody hates the germans.

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