Portuguese Opening bishop with 2...c6. The game might continue 3.Ba4 Nf6 and now White can play 4.Nc3 or 4.Qe2. Graham Burgess remarks that it looks like a Ruy Lopez where White has forgotten to play 2.Nf3. However, the Portuguese is not as bad or nonsensical as it first appears, and Black should proceed carefully. Portuguese Opening The Portuguese Opening is a chess opening that begins with the moves: The Portuguese is an uncommon opening. In contrast to the Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5), by delaying Nf3, White leaves the f-pawn free to move and retains the possibility of playing f2–f4.
Tactical decision game fictional. If the scenario is based entirely upon a reliable historical narrative, a tactical decision game is also a "decision-forcing case". (Such an exercise may also be called an "historical map problem".) However, if any of the elements in the scenario of a tactical decision game is fictional, then the exercise is a kind of "fictional decision game". In Chapter 14 of "The Prince", Niccolò Machiavelli tells the story of the Greek general Philopoemon, who made extensive use of tactical decision games. “Philopoemon, Prince of the Achaeans, among other praises which writers have bestowed on him, is commended because in