What is the opening with the most book moves in chess?

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I recently played the King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation, 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 c5 6.dk O-O with 6 book moves in it, so I got curious as to what is the opening with the most book moves.

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I think the poisoned pawn variation of the Winawer French has eight (7.Qg4 Qx7 8. Qxg7 Rg8), but there May be more.
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7... Qc7 not x ... hate that you can’t edit on the app.
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I just found that The Sicilian defense: Open, Najdorf, Poisoned pawn variation accepted has 9 book moves:

 

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https://www.chess.com/openings/Sicilian-Defense-Open-Najdorf-Poisoned-Pawn-Variation-Accepted

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Do you just mean, in chess.com's book?

Or modern book theory?

That Najdorf game that I keep showing around followed book until my novelty on move 28.

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I mean in chess.com's book moves.

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I think there is a difference between opening book and opening theory, isn’t there? It probably has to do with branching, but I don’t know.
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I think Berlin Defense could go up to 40 moves force draws.. I've heard it somewhere. Kindly check it out 😅

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All I could find was this three- move opening: https://www.chess.com/openings/Ruy-Lopez-Opening-Berlin-Defense

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NikiC007 wrote:

All I could find was this three- move opening: https://www.chess.com/openings/Ruy-Lopez-Opening-Berlin-Defense

There is so much more than that brother. 😅 

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Fried Liver Attack has 12 book moves 

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Sorry for replying this late, but the Ruy López Opening: Marshall Attack, Modern, Main Line, Spassky Variation has 18 book moves.

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Najdorf has a ton

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my candidates are sicilian najdorf and ruy-lopez marshall / spassky happy.png

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Sometime i just want to say i don't give shit with all this so called either opening theory or opening book

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Thanks for the information.

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A99 Dutch 16 book moves
B99 Najdorf 21 book moves
C99 Ruy Lopez 21 book moves
D99 Grünfeld 22 book moves
E99 King's Indian Defence 23 book moves

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Nice.

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     Probably the Queen's Gambit if you count all the QGA, QGD, Slav (just another way of declining), Tarrasch, Albin and on and on and on.