The YouTube channel “BigData Visualization” has analyzed more than 900 million chess games (it is more than 2 GB of data) to find the most popular chess openings.
According to data, the following are the most chess popular openings.
- Sicilian Defense
- French Defense
- Scandinavian Defense
- Italian Defense
- Italian Game
- English Opening
- Caro-Kann Defense
- Modern Defense
- Philidor Defense
- Zukertort Opening
- Spanish Game
- Indian Game
- Van’t Kruijs Opening
- Queen’s Gambit Declined
- Hungarian Opening
- Scotch Game
- Nimzo-Larsen Attack
- Bishop’s Opening
- Pirc Defense
- Horwitz Defense
If you want to learn the above chess openings just search on Google or YouTube, but don’t forget to add the “chess” word also when you search.
