Women's World Championship KO (2018) openings - Chess Forums - Page 2

Yigor · 2018-11-08T05:23:15-08:00

I consider openings appearing in the current women's tournament: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=94094 Sicilian defense, 1. e4 c5, 30 games Ruy Lopez, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5, 23 games Queen's Gambit Declined, 1. d4 d5 2. c4 [not dxc4], 18 games Caro-Kann, 1. e4 c6, 1

Yigor

Nov 17, 2018

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Jenium wrote:

By the way, why does the GM with the best command of English (Miro) have to do the Russian commentary?

I don't know , maybe cuz the championship takes place in Russia.

Yigor

Nov 23, 2018

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The final count: 203/203 games considered.

Heather_Stephens

Nov 23, 2018

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This is interesting, but what are your conclusions?

This does not apply to me because I am not a strong player.

Yigor

Nov 23, 2018

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Heather_Stephens wrote:

This is interesting, but what are your conclusions?

This does not apply to me because I am not a strong player.

The main conclusion is that the Sicilian defense is the most popular among female chess players too. More seriously, I wanted to go deeper and analyze interesting openings and possible novelties. For example, there were 2 Evans gambit games:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/evans-gambit-declined-showalter-variation-zhu-pogonina-wwc-ko-2018