Boylston Chess Club
Who popularized fianchettoing one's bishops? Reti?
The other one that comes to mind is the Larsen pawn on rook 4.
How about the Spassky Bishop Block?
Those are great little nicknames. What about a name for an early Ke2! or an early Kd2! instead of castling? Seems like that would deserve something, and some people are fond of those kinds positions.
How about that Nakamura Queen giggling on h5? On move 2.
Jason,
That's the "Steinitz King."
I like the "Dutch Lance", for the move f4 by black in the Dutch defense.
Also, the "Karpovian Knight", Nde2 versus the Dragon (c.f. Karpov - Korchnoi, Moscow 1974).
-Matt
If someone flings a king off the board it should be known as the
Irina King. If you knock a rook off the board and don't put it back, it should be called the Irina Rook.
(Maybe I should go with the Krush King instead and the Irina Rook for the other.)
Greg -- Nice "Saved by the Bell" reference. I'm not sure anyone else caught it.
The Curdo f5?
Dustin Diamond is the Spiro Agnew of chess.
I see that he's currently rated 1369 USCF, so I suspect that he is at least generally familiar with the principles of the Spassky Bishop Block.
Wait, what is the Saved By the Bell Reference?
Jason -- The "Spassky Bishop Block" is a fictitious maneuver mentioned in an absurd exchange of trash talk between Screech and his Russian opponent in an upcoming chess tournament. The episode ends with Zach and Slater kidnapping, beating and stripping the Russian player in an effort to fix the match, which they have bet $100 on. Good clean fun for the whole family! 
Can you believe that having played 10 events in his life and being under 1400 he was selling his own dvds teaching chess? That guy will do or exploit anything to make a buck.
Chess, Celebrity Fit Club, circulating a ridiculous homemade sex tape, then I hear he's collecting money for some kind of farcical philanthropic cause, and selling t-shirts with his name on it to try to clear a massive debt he incurred that he was losing his house over. All this stuff is online, the guy's a scumbag.
One of my favorites is "pigs on the seventh," i.e. rooks doubled on the seventh rank. Who actually coined that expression?
There was a chess tournament episode on Family Ties, too. I wonder what kind of crazy chess move they invented?!
I like this post. It reminds me of a Soltis Chess to Enjoy column from decades ago on how everyone - whether they admit it or not, and of course they don't get to play it in every game - has a favorite move.
One correction: White's King's Bishop runs on the light squares.
"The Chivers Pawn" - any blundered before move 10 in a normal theoretical position
The Aylward Bishop:
that classic thing where the bishop takes a rook pawn and you just move the knight pawn up one getting it trapped
Ben,
That is a good one for a name! Who is Aylward, though?
Lillian Aylward fell for that trap against a friend of mine years ago.
It can be amusing to look back on games from when your rating was an Area Code.
Harris's Horses:
I've played Dave Harris 3 times, each time with black. In every game, he's played Bg5 or Bb5, pinning and immediately exchanging his bishop for a horse, always without provocation.
Preston's Pawn:
1 a4.
Preston Ware was some 19th century chess master from Wrentham, MA who played that god awful move with alacrity back in the old days. I remember reading a wikipedia article about it a while back and seeing that if a4 is met by 1... e5, white can respond with 2 h4!, thus entering "The Crab Variation" of the Ware Opening.
Looks pretty dangerous to me, you're coming at the guy from both angles!!!!!
RE Pigs on the Seventh Origin: Edward Winter gives Janowsky credit showing the 'The Blind Swine Checkmate’ position. go to http://www.chesshistory.com/wint...r/
winter03.html
and search on 'pigs'.
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