Depiction in Cinema
The Center Counter Defense is Ron Weasley's opening move in the 2001 film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the scene in question, Ron, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger have to play a chess game on a giant chessboard with giant chess pieces (it is one of a series of tests that one must pass in order to get to the Philosopher's Stone). Ron uses this defense to verify that the game they are playing is, in fact, exactly like Wizard's Chess (in which chess pieces are enchanted and can smash each other).
The chess positions used in the scene were created by International Master Jeremy Silman, though it is unclear if Silman was responsible for the choice of opening.
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