Saturday, July 27, 2013

Top twenty chess openings trends

28 July 2013, Kuala Lumpur – Here are the top twenty chess openings as played by International Masters and Grandmasters in May 2013. There were 2,072 games played between 1-31 May 2013 where both players were rated over 2400 Elo.

Ranking Movement Opening # of Games
1 Thumbs up King’s Indian Defence 130 games
2 Thumbs down Slav Defence 114 games
3 Thumbs down Nimzo-Indian Defence 90 games
4 Right hug Reti Opening 84 games
5 Right hug Caro-Kann Defence 82 games
6 Right hug Sicilian, Najdorf Variation 66 games
7 Thumbs up English, 1…Nf6 65 games
8 Thumbs up Queen’s Gambit Declined 63 games
9 Thumbs up 1 d4  Nf6 sidelines 59 games
10 Thumbs down Grunfeld, Classical Var 59 games
11 Thumbs up Sicilian, Kan Variation 55 games
12 Thumbs down English, 1…c5 54 games
13 Thumbs down Sicilian, 2 Nf3 sidelines 53 games
14 Thumbs up Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence 48 games
15 Right hug Queen’s Indian Defence 47 games
16 Thumbs down Semi-Slav Defence 45 games
17 Thumbs down Sicilian, 2 Nf3 sidelines 40 games
18 Thumbs down English, 1…e5 39 games
19 Thumbs up Ruy Lopez, closed sidelines 35 games
20 Right hug Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 34 games

 

source: TWIC as published in Chess, July 2013 edition.

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