Isle of Man Masters openings

Well, I'm looking at openings used in the last Isle of Man Masters (Oct. 20-28, 2018)

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=94077

I'll try to make some description starting with the most general classification:

• Sicilian defense, 1. e4 c5, 30 games
• English opening,  1. c4, 17 games
• Queen's Pawn game, 1. d4 [not QG], 16 games
• Queen's Gambit Declined, 1. d4 d5 2. c4 [not QGA], 15 games
• Caro-Kann, 1. e4 c6, 10 games
• Ruy Lopez, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5, 9 games
• Réti opening, 1. Nf3, 8 games
• French defense, 1. e4 e6, 7 games
• King's Indian Defense, 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 7 games
• Giuoco Piano, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5, 6 games
• King's Indian Attack, 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3, 4 games
• Queen's Indian Defense, 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6, 4 games
• Dutch defense, 1. d4 f5, 3 games
• Catalan opening, 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3, 2 games
• Neo-Grunfeld defense, 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 d5, 2 games
• Nimzo-Indian, 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4, 2 games
• Pirc defense, 1. e4 d6, 2 game
• Benoni defense, 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5, 1 game
• Modern defense, 1. e4 g6, 1 game
• Nimzo-Larsen attack, 1. b3, 1 game
• Philidor defense, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6, 1 game
• Scotch game, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4, 1 game
• Two Knights defense, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6, 1 game

Sicilian defense variations:

• Najdorf, 9 games
• Kan variation, 3 games
• Taimanov, 3 games
• Alapin (+Delayed), 3 games
• Closed Sicilian, 3 games
• Old Sicilian, 3 games
• Richter-Rauzer, 2 games
• Rossolimo, 2 games
• Scheveningen, 1 game
• Sveshnikov, 1 game

(150/674 games considered , to be continued)

Interesting!  Thanks, Yigor :-)

Random sample?

Hello Jamie!  I've considered first 50 games. I'm planning to continue later today hoping to cover all 674 games. 

yes, great job, interesting !!

Many thanks 🌿

really good! 

great job! We are hoping for the continuation! 

ProphetessMio and porcotube: Thanks!  75/674 games considered at the moment. 

100/674 games considered, Sicilian variations added. 

Do you intend to include the various QGD choices? Wondering if there was any love for the Tarrasch Defense. 

I looked it up and the Tarrasch Defense was played twice in the Masters. 

Batsiashvili (2492) - Xiong (2655)   0-1 

Nihal (2551) - Bellaiche (2459)  1/2-1/2

All right, thanks for pointing it out.  Any novelties in Tarrasch in these 2 games?

I didn't look closely. White played an early e3 in both games. Didn't play the main g3.

125/674 games considered. 

150/674 games considered, English opening passed to the 2nd place (17 games).