unorthodox chess

He is best known today for playing unorthodox chess openings.

He has written over 20 books on unorthodox chess openings and poker.

According to Eric Schiller's Unorthodox Chess Openings, the last name is because 1.

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A fairy chess piece or unorthodox chess piece is a piece analogous to a chess piece.

Unorthodox Chess Openings, Eric Schiller, Cardoza, 1997.

The St. George Defence (also known as the Baker Defence or Birmingham Defence) is an unorthodox chess opening for Black.

However, in Unorthodox Chess Openings, Eric Schiller states that the opening is too slow, and that Black can respond vigorously with 2...d5!

N.N. versus Blackburne, England 1880(according to E.Schiller in Unorthodox chess openings the game was in fact Jerome-Blackburne) 1.

Most famously, in 1980 at the European Team Championship in Skara, he beat reigning world champion Anatoly Karpov with black using the extremely unorthodox chess opening 1 .

Because of the distributed and uncoordinated nature of unorthodox chess development, often the same piece is referred to by different names or the same name is used for different pieces in various contexts (chess problems, various chess variants).

For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of chess-related games, see Chess variants.