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For unusual openings, many of the openings I have ever faced have been within days of each other (with different people). I am curious what drives this phenomena, and if there is a specific website/blog/etc that is driving this (would be good to know so I can stay ahead of the game
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Some specific examples. I have played ~570 games in all, (started playing 12 months ago).
(A) Elephant Gambit e4 e5 Nf3 d5: Faced only twice, both in the last 24 hrs, twice in a row!
(B) Saragossa Opening: 1 c3 Faced twice, on June 11 and June 12
(C) Bird's opening 1 f4. Faced 4 times, three times between May 30 and June 25
(D) Reti: 1. Nf3: faced 9 times, 5 of which between Feb 7 and Mar 2 this year.
(E) Petroff 4 Nc6 (e4 e5 Nf3 Nf6 Nxe5 Nc6) Faced 6 times, twice on May 20 and another time twice in a week in July (Still a strange distribution statistically in my 1 yr of playing)
I wonder if anyone has a chart showing openings and frequency of games on chess.com, and whether Elephant Gambit has seen an upsurge this week.
--Abh