What does "ECO" mean?

ECO stands for the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, which provides the most common system for categorizing all chess openings.

Despite having only 500 codes (from A00-E99), the system does a good job of segmenting openings. These codes help to organize chess games and openings, especially in game databases.

Check out all the openings in on our Openings page!

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