Opening family
Kádas Opening Lines and Variations
The Kádas Opening family contains 9 named lines in this opening book, spanning ECO A00. 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 · Kádas Opening
- A00 · Kádas Opening: Koola-Koola Variation
- A00 · Kádas Opening: Schneider Gambit
- A00 · Kádas Opening: Beginner's Trap
- A00 · Kádas Opening: Kádas Gambit
- A00 · Kádas Opening: Kádas Gambit
- A00 · Kádas Opening: Myers Variation
- A00 · Kádas Opening: Steinbok Gambit
- A00 · Kádas Opening: Kádas Gambit
Deep theory branches
- 1. h4 d5 2. d4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. c3 — Kádas Opening: Kádas Gambit
- 1. h4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 — Kádas Opening: Kádas Gambit
- 1. h4 d5 2. d4 c5 3. e4 — Kádas Opening: Myers Variation
- 1. h4 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. d3 — Kádas Opening: Steinbok Gambit
- 1. h4 d5 2. Rh3 — Kádas Opening: Beginner's Trap
- 1. h4 c5 2. b4 — Kádas Opening: Kádas Gambit
- 1. h4 a5 — Kádas Opening: Koola-Koola Variation
- 1. h4 g5 — Kádas Opening: Schneider Gambit
- 1. h4 — Kádas Opening