manfredmann wrote:
Steinz invented 57 varieties of ketchup. Or one variety with 57 ingredients. He also invented beer mugs.
That's Heinz...
Who invented the most openings in chess
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kingrook1 wrote:
manfredmann wrote:
Steinz invented 57 varieties of ketchup. Or one variety with 57 ingredients. He also invented beer mugs.
That's Heinz...
Oops sorry spelling error
I'm guessing the great Akiba Rubinstein. In fact, it is hard to find an opening without a variation named after him.
Fischer and Bronstein (random opening position...Bronstein had an interesting randomizing idea before Bobby).
Daeth. But he ain't around anymore unless he rejoined under a new name.
Mr. Exchange.
hehe you guys are funny, Mainline_Novelty and manfredmann hehe... but I think Herr Gambit trumps them all.
speaking of, how many openings are named after capablanca?
Somebodysson wrote:
speaking of, how many openings are named after capablanca?
Openings or variations?
Did a hippopotamus play the hippo successfully and famously?
Ouch.
manfredmann wrote:
gundamv wrote:
Botvinnik
Botvinnik Variation of the English
Botvinnik Variation of the Semi-Slav
Botvinnik Variation of the QGD
+ Panov-Botvinnik Attack vs Caro Kann 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4
+ Botvinnik-Karls Gambit in the Caro-Kann 1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 e5 c5!?
ouch.
DrFrank124c wrote:
FrenchTutor wrote:
I don't know about inventing openings, but Daeth invinted one...
lol
So did I; unfortunately, I haven't been able to get it named after me. Apparently some guy with the last name Blongcloud saw me play it, and claimed it as his own invinted opining before I could do anything about it.
Bronstein mostly for KID, and for letting Botvinnik win.
Scottrf wrote:
Did a hippopotamus play the hippo successfully and famously?
Maybe against Tal....
TBentley wrote:
Scottrf wrote:
Did a hippopotamus play the hippo successfully and famously?
Maybe against Tal....
Not bad!
How about a points system? If you get a line named after you in a variation which only starts on the 10th move, you get one point. If you get a whole opening from the first move on named after you, it´s 10 points (Bird´s Opening, 1.f4). 9 points for the 2nd move, 8 for the 3rd and so on down to 1 for the 10th. So Ruy Lopez gets 8 points for 3.Bc5 (even though he didn´t invent it), as does Fischer for the Fischer Defence (3 ...d6) in the King´s Gambit. If as in the Nimzo-Larsen two names are credited they share the points, e.g. Nimzovitsch and Larsen get 5 points each for 1.b3.
How about it? Who´s top of the league on this basis?
Yes, I just found another system of counting openings, named after players in The Oxford Companion of Chess : in the book are 1327 openings with names; and in the text a lot of info is given to named attacks, gambits, defences, systems and variations.
I counted names as follows :
Steinitz 32
Rubinstein 31
Nimzowitsch 29
Alekhine 28
Paulsen 23
Keres 22
Tartakower 22
Alapin 22
and Bogoljubow 19 ; Lasker 18 ; Botwinnik 15 ; Maroczy 14 ; Anderssen 14 ; Capablanca 14 ; Tarrasch 14 ; Smyslov 13 ; Chigorin 13 ; Marshall 13 ; Schlechter 12 ; Berger 12 ; Blackburne 11 ; Bronstein 11 ; Spielmann 10 ; Pillsbury 10 ; Kieseritzky 10 ; Grunfeld 8 ; Reti 8 ; Zukertort 7.
Twenty-eight names of players with influence on openings played !
It might nice to figure out in what type of openings they pioneered, something for a separate forum, and it said something about famous players with no influence on openings, as Fischer, Tal and Spassky.
I think Steinz