Earliest openings by ECO codes and pawn structures

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Yigor

I consider 301 games in the period (1475-1829, chessgames site). I indicate some basic pawn structures (in my notations). settings.pngpeshka.png

 

  • A00 Uncommon, 2 games | 1E 2e1E2De1E, 1C - 2D1C - 2D1Ce
  • B00 Uncommon KP, 3 games
  • B01 Scandinavian, 1 game | 2E 2Ed 6Ed
  • B20 Sicilian, 2 games
  • C01 French: Exchange, 1 game
  • C02 French: Advance, 2 games
  • C20 King's Pawn, 1 game
  • C23 Bishop's opening, 5 games
  • C27 Vienna game, 1 game
  • C30 King's Gambit, 1 game
  • C33 King's Gambit Accepted, 1 game
  • C34 King's Gambit Accepted, 1 game
  • C37 King's Gambit Accepted, 4 games
  • C38 King's Gambit Accepted, 2 games
  • C39 King's Gambit Accepted, 1 game
  • C40 King's Knight, 8 games | 2E - 2Ee - 6f2Ee
  • C41 Philidor defense, 1 game
  • C42 Petrov defense, 1 game | 2E - 2Ee 6Ee
  • C53 Giuoco Piano, 8 games
  • C57 Two Knights, 1 game
  • D06 Queen's Gambit, 1 game
  • D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted, 2 games

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someuwin

Yigor wrote:

I consider 301 games in the period (1475-1829, chessgames site).

  • A00 Uncommon, 2 games
  • B00 Uncommon KP, 1 game
  • B01 Scandinavian, 1 game
  • C20 King's Pawn, 1 game
  • C23 Bishop's opening, 1 game
  • C27 Vienna game, 1 game
  • C30 King's Gambit, 1 game
  • C33 King's Gambit Accepted, 1 game
  • C37 King's Gambit Accepted, 1 game
  • C40 King's Knight, 4 games
  • C41 Philidor defense, 1 game
  • C42 Petrov defense, 1 game
  • C53 Giuoco Piano, 8 games
  • C57 Two Knights, 1 game

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Yigor wrote: I consider 301 games in the period (1475-1829, chessgames site).A00 Uncommon, 2 gamesB00 Uncommon KP, 1 gameB01 Scandinavian, 1 gameC20 King's Pawn, 1 gameC23 Bishop's opening, 1 gameC27 Vienna game, 1 gameC30 King's Gambit, 1 gameC33 King's Gambit Accepted, 1 gameC37 King's Gambit Accepted, 1 gameC40 King's Knight, 4 gamesC41 Philidor defense, 1 gameC42 Petrov defense, 1 gameC53 Giuoco Piano, 8 gamesC57 Two Knights, 1 game(25/301 games considered , to be continued)

Yigor

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Yigor

I started to indicate some basic pawn structures (in my notations) appearing in these games. For example, 1E 2e1E - 2De1E - 6De1E in NN-Lucena game (Salamanca, 1497, 0-1) featuring the van't Kruijs: Reversed French opening:

 

 

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1544951

Yigor
DeirdreSkye wrote:

The final position is more reversed Scandinavian than it is reversed French.

 

Well, good remark.