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In the 1920's, 1.d4 Nf6 was considered an irregular opening. Then Tartakower read an old German journal in which there was a game played in 1875 by two Brahmans which began 1.d4 Nf6. Thereafter he jokingly referred to this as the "Indian Defense". This is a group for players who are interested in learning and playing the White and Black sides of the hypermodern Indian defenses to 1.d4. Our group repetoire includes 9 distinct openings: Benko Gambit, Benoni Defense, Bogo-Indian Defense, Budapest Gambit, Grünfeld Defense, Indian Game, King's Indian Defense, Nimzo-Indian Defense, and Queen's Indian Defense. All our Team Matches, Tournaments, and Vote Chess games are based on these openings. We currently have a 300 membership maximum. Please apply if you: play any of these openings are interested in joining Team Matches or Tournaments or Vote Chess wish to contribute in some way to our group already belong to less than 50 groups. Click the Indians mascot to apply.

I recently have been discussing an idea, and I would appreciate your feedback on this - I have created a forum (actually started this one a long time ago, but approaching it more seriously this time) that speaks about creating custom position tournaments. This could be anything from beginning at an opening, a middlegame, and endgame...the possibilities are endless. This would allow players of chess.com to reveal novelties, if they desire, and open a forum for discussion, and then create thematic tournaments around their novelties. Also, it doesn't have to be original ideas - we could explore ideas that are "on the market", so to speak, and discuss and play positions in tournaments. This would also work in 1 on 1 games - if you simply wanted to play an idea against a friend, you could upload the custom starting position. I was curious if you would read my forum, and if you are interested, if you would post ideas in this forum: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/tournaments/custom-position-tournaments You don't have to respond in there, but I would appreciate any feedback. If chess.com sees this idea as something that is valued by its customers, they may take a better look at creating the ability to make custom positions in the starting tab. Thank you very much, my chess friend... BirdBrain