RIP Hungarian Opening?

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fairytalelion

Has anybody else take note that the g3 opening has, rather bizarrely, changed name? Some 3 or 4 player have used against me this week and has now become Kingside Fianchetto Opening... instead of Hungarian Opening?! Why? If I were Hungarian I would be quite p,ssed. What logic? And if they had to change, Kings Fianchetto sound better, yes? Lion confused.

baddogno

At the Explorer, they call it...

   White      Black     
 
 
fairytalelion

Yeah. But this only changed a few days or so? Maybe I'm a bit weird but I kind of like Hungarian opening better? Might be fairly rare, but still 5th best opening. 

baddogno

Maybe, I never looked at it before to tell you the truth.  I just googled it though and g3's name seems to be split between Benko's opening and King's or Kingside Fianchetto.  Actually I didn't look up Hungarian, but I suppose that's next...I should get a life. wink.png

baddogno

The King's Fianchetto Opening or Benko's Opening (also known as the Hungarian OpeningBarcza Opening, or Bilek Opening) is a chess openingcharacterized by the move:

1. g3

White's 1.g3 ranks as the fifth most popular opening move, but it is far less popular than 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1.Nf3. It is usually followed by 2.Bg2, fianchettoing the bishopNick de Firmian writes that 1.g3 "can, and usually does, transpose into almost any other opening in which White fianchettos his king's bishop".[1] Included among these are the Catalan Opening, the King's Indian Attack and some variations of the English Opening. For this reason, the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openingshas no specific code devoted to 1.g3. The move itself is classified under A00,[2] but the numerous transpositional possibilities can result in various ECO codes.