Opennings and countries

I never play any Indian defences.I only play Dutch and French.I don't particularly like or hate either of these countries.

I play king´s indian with black :)

A FM told me the reason of indian opennings´s name was that in the ancient indian game, eg playing black, king wasn´t abble to castle, but player was abble to put him directly from e8 to g7 square.

There is the Universal system in the French defence

French defence is rather solid in my opinion, but i rarely use it in non-tournament play.

Ernst Grunfeld, when he invented his opening in 1921, dedicated it to the city of Petrograd.

Peter Svidler plays the Grunfeld.

Asian countries, except India , have no openings named after them. So, openings are still pretty Euro-centric. I don't know if there are sub-variations of openings named after places in North America or South America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_openings_named_after_places

I'll pass on the American Gambit.

@ebillgo;

Chinese Dragon

With TBentley's hyperlink, I found the following:

A rare instance of something Asian : Tashkent Attack of the King's Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e5 Nh5 5.g4 ( Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan in Central Asia )

  The following are  of North American origin:

@ Manhattan Variation of the QGD (also called the Westphalia Defense) 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.Nf3 Bb4 or 5.e3 Bb4

 @Massachusetts Defense of the Caro-Kann Defence 1.e4 c6 2.d4 f5

@Kentucky Opening 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+? Kxf7 5.Nxe5+   Nxe5

Haha Mainline_Novelty... This is genuinely really interesting discussion and I think it depends on the player as to whether they are affected by their countries' stereotypical opening, so especially travelleing players will probably pick up new openings and find that they prefer to use them as it suits thier style of play more, while often people like to stick to a (what they feel is) a very good opening they learned early. In this scenario it is likely to be from that country, yet perhaps even the first good opening they learn develops them as a player into that style of play, so they prefer those types of openings in the future