The Mieses Opening is a chess opening

Chess opening

A chess opening is the group of initial moves of a chess game. Recognized sequences of opening moves are referred to as openings as initiated by White or defenses, as created in reply by Black. There are many dozens of different openings, and hundreds of named variants. The Oxford Companion to...

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1. d3

It is named after the German

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-British

Great Britain

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 grandmaster Jacques Mieses

Jacques Mieses

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White and Black in chess

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 1.d3 releases his c1 bishop

Bishop (chess)

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 and makes a modest claim for the center, but since it does not stake out as large a share of the centre as 1.d4 does, it is not a popular opening move. Of the twenty possible first moves for White, it ranks tenth in popularity. Nevertheless, since 1...d6 is playable by Black

White and Black in chess

In chess, the player who moves first is referred to as "White" and the player who moves second is referred to as "Black". Similarly, the pieces that each conducts are called, respectively, "the white pieces" and "the black pieces". The pieces are often not literally white and black, but some...

 against any opening move from White, it is playable by White as well. Black has many reasonable responses, such as 1...e5, 1...d5, 1...c5, 1...Nf6, and 1...g6.

The most famous use of this opening was in the third game in the rematch between Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov

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 and the Deep Blue computer in 1997. Kasparov believed that the computer would play the opening poorly if it had to rely on its own skills rather than on its opening book

Opening book

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It is considered an irregular opening, so it is classified under the A00 code in the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings

Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings

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Illustrative game

Kasparov

Garry Kasparov

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–Deep Blue, Game 3, May 1997. 1. d3 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c4 Nf6 4. a3 d6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. g3 O-O 7. Bg2 Be6 8. O-O Qd7 9. Ng5 Bf5 10. e4 Bg4 11. f3 Bh5 12. Nh3 Nd4 13. Nf2 h6 14. Be3 c5 15. b4 b6 16. Rb1 Kh8 17. Rb2 a6 18. bxc5 bxc5 19. Bh3 Qc7 20. Bg4 Bg6 21. f4 exf4 22. gxf4 Qa5 23. Bd2 Qxa3 24. Ra2 Qb3 25. f5 Qxd1 26. Bxd1 Bh7 27. Nh3 Rfb8 28. Nf4 Bd8 29. Nfd5 Nc6 30. Bf4 Ne5 31. Ba4 Nxd5 32. Nxd5 a5 33. Bb5 Ra7 34. Kg2 g5 35. Bxe5+ dxe5 36. f6 Bg6 37. h4 gxh4 38. Kh3 Kg8 39. Kxh4 Kh7 40. Kg4 Bc7 41. Nxc7 Rxc7 42. Rxa5 Rd8 43. Rf3 Kh8 44. Kh4 Kg8 45. Ra3 Kh8 46. Ra6 Kh7 47. Ra3 Kh8 48. Ra6 ½–½