English Opening trainer
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Practise the English Opening
The English Opening (1.c4) is a flexible first move in which White controls d5 from the side instead of occupying the centre with a pawn. Play White's moves of the line from memory —
1. c4 — and the trainer plays
Black's replies; "Play the other side" turns it around.
"Drill all" adds the 180 named lines that continue it, such as English Opening: King's English Variation, English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, English Opening: King's English Variation, Reversed Sicilian, English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Queen's Knight Variation, English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, English Opening: Agincourt Defense, English Opening: King's English Variation, Two Knights Variation, English Opening: Symmetrical Variation, Normal Variation.
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