100 Most Popular Openings

I use the Local Explorer and quantities of master games.

• [1] 1. e4, King's Pawn, 1362K games --> [4], [8]
• [2] 1. d4, Queen's Pawn, 1048K --> [3], [9]
• [3] 1. d4 Nf6, Indian Game, 622K --> [6]
• [4] 1. e4 c5, Sicilian Defense, 606K --> [5]
• [5] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3, Open Sicilian, 483K --> [14]
• [6] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4, Indian Game: Main Line, 429K --> [13]
• [7] 1. Nf3, Réti Opening, 299K games
• [8] 1. e4 e5, Open Game, 296K --> [10]
• [9] 1. d4 d5, Closed Game, 263K games --> [15]
• [10] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3, Open Game: Main Line, 262K --> [11]
• [11] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6, Open Game: Main Line, 226K games
• [12] 1. c4, English Opening, 211K games
• [13] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6, East Indian Defense, 209K games
• [14] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6, Modern Sicilian, 195K games
• [15] 1. d4 d5 2. c4, Queen's Gambit, 191K games

(to be continued)

Sicilian branch: [1] --> [4] --> [5] --> [14]

Indian branch: [2] --> [3] --> [6] --> [13]

Open Game branch: [8] --> [10] --> [11]

P.S. I have nothing to do right now.

Watch a nice movie,  Yigor

Hey Bharat, a good idea!

Basically, we have 6 main branches with 200K+ master games: Sicilian, Indian, Open Game, Closed Game, English and Réti.  😎

I’m a fan of the Sicilian and English.

I see there is no Modern Defence?

Modern Defense is only relatively popular. For instance, 1. e4 g6 has 44K master games in the Local Database. However, it should appear in top 100.

I’m enjoying the Pterodactyl and Beefeater lines. I’ll have to check out the master games if there are any?

https://www.chess.com/openings/Modern-Defense-Standard-Pterodactyl-Defense

https://www.chess.com/openings/Modern-Defense-Pterodactyl-Beefeater-Variation

https://www.chess.com/openings/Modern-Defense-Pterodactyl-Benoni-Gambit-Accepted-Beefeater-Variation

Thank-you for the reply, appreciate it.

Sicilians are the way to play to win with black

No caro?

No kings gambit?