{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.semi-open-game","code":"thing-q1004714","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1004714/","name":"Semi-Open Game","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"research-draft","version":"0.2.0-wave.2","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"","entryKind":"","plane":"","domain":["XCT.QLT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"In chess, any opening that begins with the king pawn advanced two squares by White and is answered by Black with a move other than the symmetrical king pawn advance, including the Sicilian, French, Caro-Kann, Pirc, Modern, Alekhine and Scandinavian defences and rarer replies such as the Owen, Nimzowitsch and Elephant Gambit lines and unusual defences named in opening catalogues; semi-open games are the most common openings in modern chess and are classified in opening encyclopaedias.","purpose":"Let an agent explain semi-open games and their main defences and 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