The Twenty First Moves
I'm trying to learn the standard openings names, and wanted a list of the twenty first possible moves that white can make. So I made one below.
|
Freq |
ECO |
Move |
Name |
Links |
| 45.1 % |
B00 |
e4 |
King’s Pawn |
|
| 35.5 % |
A40 |
d4 |
Queen’s Pawn Game |
|
| 10.0 % |
A04 |
Nf3 |
Zukertort Opening (becomes Reti with 2. c4) |
|
| 7.30 % |
A10 |
c4 |
English Opening |
|
| 0.87 % |
A00 |
g3 |
Hungarian Opening (Benko’s) |
|
| 0.40 % |
A01 |
b3 |
Nimzo-Larsen Attack (Nimzowitsch-Larsen, etc.) |
|
| 0.33 % |
A02 |
f4 |
Bird Opening (Dutch Attack) |
|
| 0.13 % |
A00 |
Nc3 |
van Geet’s (Dunst, Heinrichsen, Baltic, etc.) |
|
| 0.10 % |
A00 |
b4 |
Polish Opening (Sokolsky, Orangutan) |
|
| 0.038 % |
A00 |
e3 |
Van't Kruijs Opening |
|
| 0.036 % |
A00 |
d3 |
Mieses Opening |
|
| 0.025 % |
A00 |
a3 |
Anderssen’s Opening |
|
| 0.013 % |
A00 |
c3 |
Saragossa Opening |
|
| 0.009 % |
A00 |
g4 |
Grob’s Attack |
|
| 0.005 % |
A00 |
h3 |
Clemenz Opening |
|
| 0.002 % |
A00 |
h4 |
Kadas Opening (Desprez, Anti-Borg, Samurai, etc.) |
|
| 0.002 % |
E00 |
Nh3 |
Amar Opening (Paris, Drunken Knight, Ammonia) |
|
| 0.001 % |
A00 |
a4 |
Ware Opening (Meadow Hay) |
|
| 0.001 % |
A00 |
f3 |
Gedult’s Opening (Barnes |
|
| 0.000 % |
A00 |
Na3 |
Sodium Attack (Durkin Opening/Attack) |
|
Note: Where the Chess.Com & Wikipedia name differs, the Chess.com name takes precedence with alternatives in parenthesis.
Edited: Corrections.
Edited II: I added a frequency column based on the games explorer frequency on Chess.com
Edit (Aug 2021): Formatting Fix
