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Niksda
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notmtwain

http://www.chess.com/explorer/

It looks like Na3 is your best bet. It won a whopping 80% of the games where it was played.

Niksda
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Dark_Falcon

The Blackmar-Diemer-Gambit...of course...

JGambit

Ruy lopez if you like e4 and queens gambit if you like d4,

as black you are looking for the nimzo indian against d4 and the najdorf against e4

Ben-Lui
Niksda wrote:

Awesome, thx!
would be also neat to see the same statistic for all chess.com games!

I think you failed to see the sarcasm in notmtwain's post. What he means is: there's much more to statistics than meets the eye.

When you're considering these raw percentages, you also have to consider:

1. Does the line contain a high percentage of older and since partially refuted lines ?

2. Does the line contain a high percentage of blunders on the opponent's part?

3. Has the line been played by players with a high or with a low average rating?

4. Has the line been successfully played 4 or 4000 times?

... and so on.

Niksda
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MervynS

Win/loss/draw percentages for openings will vary by player strength I imagine.

At our level, I doubt there are that many draws with, for example, the Slav Exchange variation.

But GMs I think as black have to avoid the Slav exchange with black. I've read somewhere that FMs and IMs can steer Exchange Slavs as white to draws and there wouldn't be much higher rated GMs can do about it on the black side.

I'm pretty sure something like Chessbase will have lots of filters that accompanies opening percentages.

Ben-Lui
Niksda wrote:

i probably should have rephrased my topic like this:
What has been the most played opening as white... calling it the "statistically best" has been confusing obviously.

If it's not a close contest between 1.e4 and 1.d4 I'll eat my chessboard.