Talk:Queen's Pawn Game

Partial reference
A reference was asked for "In the 19th century and early 20th century, 1.e4 was by far the most common opening move by White". I added one to Watson, pg 87; I hope it is good enough. He says: (1) the majority of top players use 1.e4 more often than not, and (2) 1. e4 e5 dominated for many years, but he doesn't say which years. Somewhere I've seen what would be a better reference, but I can't remember where. Bubba73 (talk), 02:07, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Queen's Pawn Opening
Suggest that a more precise name for this page is 'Queen's Pawn Opening' ChessCreator (talk) 02:21, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed, based on Hooper & Whyld (1996) OCC entries 'Queen's Pawn Opening' (1.d4) and 'King's Pawn Opening' (1.e4). Currently those names are REDIRECTed to articles 'Queen's Pawn Game' and 'King's Pawn Game'. Perhaps a better plan for names 'Queen's Pawn Game' and 'King's Pawn Game' is to have them REDIRECT to (synonyms for) articles Closed Game and Open Game, freeing up so this article and King's Pawn Game article can be renamed. (Yes?/No?) --IHTS (talk) 21:12, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
 * MCO-15 refers to "Other Queen Pawn Openings" (p. 491) and "Queen's Pawn Games and Gambits" (p. 506).
 * NCO refers to "Unusual Queen Pawn Openings" (p. 61).
 * As names of openings go, both "queen pawn game" and "queen pawn opening" are perfunctory -- "This has no name, of course, so I'm just calling it 'queen's pawn opening". I cannot think of a good reason to prefer one over the other. Bruce leverett (talk) 01:12, 22 January 2023 (UTC)