• The Symmetrical Defense (or Austrian Defense) is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c5 First described in print by Alessandro Salvio...
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  • playable for Black. 2...Bf5!? – Baltic Defense (D06), an offbeat but playable line. 2...c5 – Symmetrical Defense (D06). This is rarely played; although...
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  • – Baltic Defense 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c5 – Symmetrical Defense (or Austrian Defense) 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nf6 – Marshall Defense Of the 34 games played in the 1927 World...
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  • Gambit Accepted Symmetrical Defense Slav Defense Chigorin Defense Albin Countergambit Queen's Gambit Declined Baltic Defense Marshall Defense Blackmar–Diemer...
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  • Sicilian Defense, or 2.c4, the Symmetrical Defense of the English Opening. White can play 2.c4 for the English Opening, 2.e4 for the Sicilian Defense, 2.g3...
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  • to transpose into either a Symmetrical Defence with ...c5, or a Reversed Sicilian with ...e5. 1...e6 (the Agincourt Defense) can lead to a Queen's Gambit...
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    position". Fischer won, putting him ahead 5–3. English Opening: Symmetrical Defense (ECO A39) 1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. 0-0...
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  • Army flag with symmetrical 16 rays and a 2:3 ratio was abolished in 1945. The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF)...
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  • King's Indian Defense, E60, 1-0 Robert James Fischer vs Max Pavey, New York Manhattan 1956, King's Indian Attack, Symmetrical Defense, A05, 0-1 http://www...
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  • draw, they can play the symmetrical line, which continues 3...cxd5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bf4 Bf5, resulting in a totally symmetrical position where every...
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    Baltic Defense Cambridge Springs Defense Chigorin Defense Marshall Defense Semi-Slav Defense Slav Defense Symmetrical Defense Tarrasch Defense Indian...
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  • the exchange of pawns often lead to symmetrical central pawn structures, as in the Slav Defense and the French Defense, among others. The resulting pawn...
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  • opening sequences, known as openings, have standard names such as "Sicilian Defense". The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants...
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    location poorly. As the architecture of a bastion fortress relies on a symmetrical defense, Sveaborg had many weaknesses.[citation needed] Although the Russian...
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    are designed to make any practical attempt of breaking them infeasible. Symmetric-key ciphers are suitable for bulk encryption using shared keys, and public-key...
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  • e5 are called Double King's Pawn Games, Double King's Pawn Openings, Symmetrical King's Pawn Games, or Open Games – these terms are equivalent. Openings...
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  • to Black, by transposition) The Classical Defense (also known as the Boi Variation) is Black's symmetrical response, 2...Bc5. White can then transpose...
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  • Whitaker essayed a classical style, with a strong preference for symmetrical defenses with the Black pieces; he never seriously adopted the hypermodern...
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    measures up to 40 cm (16 in) in diameter. The sea nettle is radially symmetrical, marine, and carnivorous. Its mouth is located at the center of one end...
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  • characterised by the following moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 Though this symmetrical response has a long history, it was first popularised by Alexander Petrov...
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    Map puffer (section Defense)
    pelvic fin and no lateral line. The dorsal fin and the anal fin are small, symmetric and located at the end of the body. Its snout is short with two pairs...
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  • fortress defense is closely linked to the specialization of soldier mandibles. Soldiers can have biting-crushing, biting-cutting, cutting, symmetrical snapping...
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  • several openings) 2...c5 3.d5 (Benoni Defence) 3.Nf3 (English Opening, Symmetrical Defence) 2.Nf3 leads to a similar range of transpositional possibilities...
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    Japanese Army flag with symmetrical 16 rays and a 2:3 ratio was abolished. The Japan Self-Defense Forces and the Ground Self-Defense Force use a significantly...
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  • The Semi-Tarrasch Defense is a chess opening characterized by the following moves: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 c5 The Semi-Tarrasch is a variation...
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  • 17.Re1 Rxe1+ 18.Nxe1 Ne8 19.Nd3 Nd6 20.Qb3 a6 21.Kf1 ½–½. Despite the symmetrical pawn structure, White cannot force a draw. An obsession with obtaining...
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    Shigeru Ishiba (category Ministers of defense of Japan)
    member of the House of Representatives since 1986 and served as Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2008 and Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from...
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    Nepomniachtchi, 2021 World Championship game 6 (2021), Queen's Pawn Game, Symmetrical Variation, Pseudo-Catalan, 1–0. Game 6 was a 136-move win for Carlsen...
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    Andrew Soltis wrote in 2008 that he hates playing against the symmetrical Petroff's Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6), and accordingly varies with 2.Nc3, the...
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    of The MAGA Cult and Trump Derangement Syndrome: An Examination of (A)symmetric Political Bias". Societies. 11 (3): 113. doi:10.3390/soc11030113. Gaufman...
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