Chess Openings
- 1. e4 King's Pawn Game 58% · 29M games
- 1. d4 Queen's Pawn Game 25% · 13M games
- 1. Nf3 Zukertort Opening 4% · 1.8M games
- 1. c4 English Opening 3% · 1.6M games
- 1. e3 Van't Kruijs Opening 2% · 1.1M games
- 1. g3 Hungarian Opening 2% · 862k games
- 1. b3 Nimzo-Larsen Attack 2% · 834k games
- 1. f4 Bird Opening 1% · 551k games
- 1. d3 Mieses Opening 1.0% · 484k games
- 1. Nc3 Van Geet Opening 0.6% · 307k games
- 1. b4 Polish Opening 0.4% · 219k games
- 1. g4 Grob Opening 0.3% · 162k games
- 1. c3 Saragossa Opening 0.3% · 160k games
- 1. f3 Barnes Opening 0.1% · 74k games
- 1. h4 Kádas Opening 0.1% · 57k games
- 1. a3 Anderssen's Opening 0.1% · 45k games
- 1. a4 Ware Opening 0.1% · 42k games
- 1. h3 Clemenz Opening 0.1% · 36k games
- 1. Nh3 Amar Opening 0.0% · 12k games
- 1. Na3 Sodium Attack 0.0% · 5,679 games
Popular openings
- King's Knight Opening 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 2 variations
- Sicilian Defense 1. e4 c5 326 variations
- King's Knight Opening: Normal Variation 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6
- Scandinavian Defense 1. e4 d5 41 variations
- French Defense 1. e4 e6 170 variations
- Caro-Kann Defense 1. e4 c6 91 variations
- Indian Defense 1. d4 Nf6 52 variations
- Italian Game 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 155 variations
- Queen's Gambit 1. d4 d5 2. c4 186 variations
- Scandinavian Defense: Mieses-Kotroc Variation 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5
- French Defense: Normal Variation 1. e4 e6 2. d4
- Horwitz Defense 1. d4 e6 1 variation
- Pirc Defense 1. e4 d6 22 variations
- Bishop's Opening 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 39 variations
- Queen's Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3
- Sicilian Defense: Old Sicilian 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6
- Modern Defense 1. e4 g6 36 variations
- Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 4 variations
- Philidor Defense 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 37 variations
- Vienna Game 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 54 variations
- Englund Gambit 1. d4 e5 15 variations
- Scotch Game 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 47 variations
- French Defense: Knight Variation 1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 1 variation
- Indian Defense: Normal Variation 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4
All openings A–Z
- Alekhine Defense 52
- Amar Opening 2
- Amazon Attack 1
- Amsterdam Attack
- Anderssen's Opening 3
- Australian Defense
- Barnes Defense
- Barnes Opening 4
- Basque Opening
- Benko Gambit 22
- Benoni Defense 46
- Bird Opening 26
- Bishop's Opening 39
- Blackmar-Diemer Gambit 48
- Blumenfeld Countergambit 3
- Bogo-Indian Defense 9
- Bongcloud Attack
- Borg Defense 3
- Canard Opening
- Caro-Kann Defense 91
- Carr Defense 1
- Catalan Opening 14
- Center Game 15
- Clemenz Opening 2
- Colle System 3
- Czech Defense
- Danish Gambit 7
- Döry Defense
- Duras Gambit
- Dutch Defense 57
- East Indian Defense
- Elephant Gambit 3
- English Defense 5
- English Opening 127
- English Orangutan
- Englund Gambit 15
- Four Knights Game 39
- French Defense 170
- Fried Fox Defense
- Global Opening
- Goldsmith Defense 1
- Grob Opening 19
- Grünfeld Defense 50
- Gunderam Defense
- Hippopotamus Defense
- Horwitz Defense 1
- Hungarian Opening 19
- Indian Defense 52
- Irish Gambit
- Italian Game 155
- Kádas Opening 6
- Kangaroo Defense 1
- King's Gambit 179
- King's Indian Attack 13
- King's Indian Defense 108
- King's Knight Opening 2
- King's Pawn Game 38
- Lasker Simul Special
- Latvian Gambit 25
- Lemming Defense
- Lion Defense 5
- London System 3
- Marienbad System 1
- Mexican Defense 1
- Mieses Opening 3
- Mikenas Defense 3
- Modern Defense 36
- Montevideo Defense
- Neo-Grünfeld Defense 10
- Nimzo-Indian Defense 67
- Nimzo-Larsen Attack 12
- Nimzowitsch Defense 40
- Old Indian Defense 12
- Owen Defense 7
- Paleface Attack
- Petrov's Defense 42
- Philidor Defense 37
- Pirc Defense 22
- Polish Defense 1
- Polish Opening 25
- Ponziani Opening 12
- Portuguese Opening 2
- Pseudo Queen's Indian Defense
- Pterodactyl Defense 32
- Queen's Gambit 186
- Queen's Indian Accelerated
- Queen's Indian Defense 49
- Queen's Pawn Game 49
- Rapport-Jobava System 1
- Rat Defense 11
- Réti Opening 19
- Richter-Veresov Attack 6
- Rubinstein Opening 3
- Ruy Lopez 199
- Saragossa Opening
- Scandinavian Defense 41
- Scotch Game 47
- Semi-Slav Defense 49
- Sicilian Defense 326
- Slav Defense 42
- Slav Indian 1
- Sodium Attack 3
- St. George Defense 3
- Tarrasch Defense 25
- Three Knights Opening 4
- Torre Attack 6
- Trompowsky Attack 8
- Valencia Opening
- Van Geet Opening 32
- Van't Kruijs Opening 4
- Vienna Game 54
- Vulture Defense
- Wade Defense
- Ware Defense 1
- Ware Opening 6
- Yusupov-Rubinstein System
- Zaire Defense
- Zukertort Defense 2
- Zukertort Opening 40