Opening family
Hungarian Opening Lines and Variations
The Hungarian Opening family contains 20 named lines in this opening book, spanning ECO A00 to A07. Use this page as the map, then open individual lines for exact move orders and diagrams.
How to study this family
White
White should use the move order as a checkpoint: finish development, identify the central break, and compare the continuations below before memorizing moves.
Black
Black should ask what White is threatening in the center, then choose development moves that prepare a clean pawn break or a useful exchange.
Start with the shortest line, then branch to the variations that change the pawn structure or tactical target. Memorizing every branch before understanding the family plan is usually wasted work.
Main named lines
- A00 · Hungarian Opening
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Dutch Defense
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Indian Defense
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Myers Defense
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Sicilian Invitation
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Symmetrical Variation
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Reversed Alekhine
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Catalan Formation
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Reversed Modern Defense
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Slav Formation
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Van Kuijk Gambit
- A07 · Hungarian Opening: Wiedenhagen-Beta Gambit
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Bücker Gambit
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Reversed Norwegian Defense
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Pachman Gambit
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Reversed Brooklyn Defense, Brooklyn Benko Gambit
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Winterberg Gambit
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Burk Gambit
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Paris Gambit
- A00 · Hungarian Opening: Asten Gambit
Deep theory branches
- 1. g3 Nc6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 e5 4. dxe5 d4 5. Ne4 f5 — Hungarian Opening: Asten Gambit
- 1. g3 e5 2. a3 d5 3. Nf3 e4 4. Nh4 Be7 5. d3 — Hungarian Opening: Burk Gambit
- 1. g3 e5 2. Nh3 d5 3. f4 Bxh3 4. Bxh3 exf4 5. O-O — Hungarian Opening: Paris Gambit
- 1. g3 e5 2. Nf3 e4 3. Ng1 Nf6 4. b4 — Hungarian Opening: Reversed Brooklyn Defense, Brooklyn Benko Gambit
- 1. g3 d5 2. Bg2 e5 3. c4 dxc4 4. b3 — Hungarian Opening: Winterberg Gambit
- 1. g3 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. Qh5+ g6 — Hungarian Opening: Pachman Gambit
- 1. g3 d5 2. Bg2 e5 3. b4 — Hungarian Opening: Bücker Gambit
- 1. g3 e5 2. Nf3 e4 3. Nh4 — Hungarian Opening: Reversed Norwegian Defense
- 1. g3 d5 2. Bg2 e6 — Hungarian Opening: Catalan Formation
- 1. g3 d5 2. Bg2 c5 — Hungarian Opening: Reversed Modern Defense
- 1. g3 d5 2. Bg2 c6 — Hungarian Opening: Slav Formation
- 1. g3 h5 2. Nf3 h4 — Hungarian Opening: Van Kuijk Gambit
- 1. g3 d5 2. Nf3 g5 — Hungarian Opening: Wiedenhagen-Beta Gambit
- 1. g3 e5 2. Nf3 — Hungarian Opening: Reversed Alekhine
- 1. g3 f5 — Hungarian Opening: Dutch Defense
- 1. g3 Nf6 — Hungarian Opening: Indian Defense