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Chess: King's Pawn Game: Leonardis Variation — Not So Passive After All

I Played the Aggressor

The white pieces.

🙂‍↕️

This is the "Leonardis Variation" opening position:

This opening is rather passive for White.

But!

Let's have a sly look. 👀 👀 👀

You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board.

Anyway, I have a post about the Leonardis Variation bit within my other post about Bird Opening.

Calm Opening

I usually do an aggressive opening. Or simply a melon of an opening.

Back then — in that dawn of Windows 7 era — when playing White, I mostly did "the Whale" against the Chess Titans. Chess Titans, bundled with Windows 7 and Vista. Remember that chess game? Smashing graphics. Maximum level, mate! Level 10?

The Whale is: 1. e4 e5 2. c4 ⬇️

The Whale opening is rather an offbeat one.

Leonardis Variation, on the other hand, passive and solid. Very calm. It gives me a breathing space to observe my opponent. — Mm. Yes, yes. — type of observation.

In that game above, I almost did the Whale, but I swapped the sequence.

That triangle ⬇️

— is interesting.

2026-08-17T13:31:11+01:00

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