How good are Indian defenses nowadays?
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Hello I am trying to make a repertoire against d4 and I like the Indian defenses. I know at my level openings don't make much of a difference but I just wanted to know how are the Indian defenses doing nowadays.
Should I put my time in them and in Which one?
Is Grunfeld or Slav like defenses more better for me at this time?
The July 2017 issue of Chess lists the top twenty openings compiled from a list of 2094 May games where both players were rated over 2400 Elo. One can not take position on this list too seriously because it is greatly influenced by how the openings are grouped. For example, all the Retis are grouped together, while English is separated into 1...c5, 1...e5, etc. Nevertheless, for what it is worth, some of the list entries are: 116 Retis, 95 King's Indians, 92 Caro-Kanns, 76 Slavs, 70 Nimzo-Indians, 63 Najdorf Sicilians, 61 1...c5 Englishes, 61 declined Queen's Gambits, 52 1...e5 Englishes, 47 Catalans, 41 Classical Gruenfelds, 41 Queen's Indians, 37 Berlin Ruy Lopezes, and 36 Kan Sicilians.