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Billium248

I'm sure this is not a complete list, but it was all I could find at the time.  If you know of any others, please let me know.  The number of members was current as of 6/21/10.

 

Group - # of members

 

The Dark Knights 309
The Sicilian Superstars 277
The Scotch Fans Team 264
French Defense Fanatics 261
Gambit Gang 259
1.e4 Lovers 228
Caro-Kann Cutthroats 187
King's Gambit Players 187
Alexander Alekhine and his defense 163
Unorthodox Openings 155
Bird's Opening Lovers 150
Queen's Gambit Gurus 115
The Radical Ruy Lopez 113
Dragon Chaos 95
The English Opening Eagles 87
Dynamic Dutch Defense 79
1.d4 group 74
Gambit Defenders 64
1.b3 Nimzo-Larsen Attack 62
Grunfeld and The KID 57
Budapest Gambiteers 55
1.e4 d5 Scandinavian Defense 53
kings gambit players 53
Latvian Gambit Players 49
1…g6 Modern Defense 48
1.d4 Nf6 46
Hypermodern Hangout 45
Traxler Analysis 44
Trompovsky Attack Lovers 40
Nimzo Indian Ninjas! 39
KIA Inc. 36
The Hypermodern 1.Nf3 34
The Dragon's Cave 33
Vienna Gamers 33
Benko Gambit 32
Gambiteers and Gunslingers 27
Hippo 27
1.Nc3 1…Nc6 Fans! 26
1…b6 26
King's Gambiteers 26
Sicilian Grand Prix Attack 26
Alekhine Chess Group 24
Slav Opening 24
Alekhine Defense 23
Caro-Kann lovers 23
Queen's Indian Opening 23
Dragon Lords 20
Englund & Scandinavian Gambits 20
Get better @ openings 20
The Grunfeld Defence 20
1.g4 1…g5 GroB org 19
Blackmar-Diemer Gambit 19
I can C4 miles 17
Polish/Sokolsky Opening Stars 17
Random Opening Group 17
The Wandering King Appreciation Society 17
For the love of gambits 16
1.d4 Nf6: Indian Defenses 14
Danish Gambit 14
King's Own Gambit Appreciation Society 14
Latvian Gambiteers 13
Opening Repertoire 13
The Italian Game 13
The Sicilian Defence Fan Club 13
Weird Openings 13
1.Nf3 2.c4 Reti 12
Albin counter-gambit 12
English Defense (1.c4 b6 2.d4 e6) 12
The Fried Liver Attack 12
Bishops Gambiteers 11
English Openers 11
najdorf fans! 11
Reti Fans 11
Giuoco Piano 8
Ponziani Players 7
The King Indians Attack Fan Club 7
Dragon Slayers 6
Fred's Defense Group 6
Giuoco Piano lovers 6
Grand Prix Attack Lovers 6
Opening Virtuoso's 6
The Petroff group 6
Blackmar-Diemer & Omega Gambits 5
Danube Openings 5
French defense superstars 5
Scandinavian Defense 5
The Sokolsky (Polish 1.b4) Opening 5
Alekhine followers 4
d4 lovers 4
Halloween Gambiteers 4
King's Gambit learners 4
Specialize in the Evans Gambit 4
The Queen's Gambit 4
English opening power 3
King's Indian Defence Lovers 3
queen's gambit players 3
Smith-Morra Gambit 3
1. h4 !! 2
1.e4 e5 Gambiteers 2
Boungcloud Society, 2
English Opening Corps 2
Sicilian for Black 2
The Closed Sicilian 2
The Hallowe'en gambiteers 2
Dutch Stonewallers 1
French Defense 1
OpeningGambit

Wow - that must have taken you a while to compile that list!  I wonder how many of them will be willing to play...

OGSmile

mitto

what about a member who is playing in more than one team ?

How can he play in this world  cup of chess openning.

for example i am a member in :

 

The Dark Knights   

 joined as a  basic  member

 

 

 

The Italian Game       as  an admin

mitto

very nice,then I can choose one of them

Billium248

In the FSVL, we have many people who play for multiple teams, and it has not been a problem.  If 2 of your teams are playing against each other you will obviously need to make a choice as to which one you will play for, or sit it out altogether, but that will be your choice.  There is no limit to the number of teams you can play for.  In fact, I'm hoping that this tournament will increase the membership in ALL groups involved.

BTW... Welcome to The Dark Knights!!  Cool

Billium248

Balachandar has offered this more recent list:

 

http://blog.chess.com/Balachandar/list-of-all-opening-based-groups-on-chesscom