52 Chess Openings
52 chess openings published by SynHeme Inc., Canada.
One of a series of 4 decks published by SynHeme Inc., Canada, in 2008, devoted to different chess opening moves (Basic, Sicilian, French. Spanish). The pack illustrated here describes the Spanish Opening in more detail than that covered in the Basic deck on chess openings.
The Club suit is devoted to the much-played Spanish Opening:
- ECO encyclopedia reference
- Opening name
- Variation name
- Moves for White and Black
- Key Diagram position
- Most common following moves
The remaining suits cover the following openings: King's Indian Attack, English Opening, Anglo-Indian Opening, King's English Opening, Scandinavian Defence, Alekhine Defence, Robash , Botvinnik Gambit, Pirc Defence, Queen's Gambit Declined and Semi-Slav Defence
Above: 52 chess openings published by SynHeme Inc., Canada, in 2008
By Peter Burnett
Member since July 27, 2022
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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