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A00Opening

Clemenz Opening

1. h3

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Black to move

Legal moves
20
Games in the next 4 moves
181,044
Different positions among them
66,801
Named lines from here
3

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Named after Hermann Clemenz, a 19th-century player from Estonia. One of the quietest first moves in chess.

It is reached after a single move: 1. h3.

Black is to move and has 20 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 181,044 different games. Those games reach 66,801 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.7 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 3 further lines after this position, such as Spike Lee Gambit (1... h5 2. g4) and Global Opening (1... e5 2. a3).

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Clemenz Opening
Every game of the next four moves from this position, as the map draws it. Each ring is one more move; the outer ring holds all 181,044 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. h3Clemenz Opening

Named lines from here

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FEN

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