Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:13:01 01/28/02
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A couple surprises, at least to me, are how well the French Defense does for Black (I play it!) and how poorly the Grunfeld Defense does for Black. [People have always tried to tell me that the Caro-Kann must be better for Black than the French, because it doesn't lock in the bishop, but I guess the French has compensating factors.] On January 28, 2002 at 16:03:26, Roy Eassa wrote: >On January 28, 2002 at 15:27:35, K. Burcham wrote: > >> >>scroll down the page for statistics on best and worst. >>kburcham >> >> >>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/stats.htm > > >White's Best Openings (Based on White Win % minus Black Win %) > >Position Opening Difference % >1 Queen's Gambit +16 >=2 English Opening +14 >=2 King's Indian Attack +14 >4 Ruy Lopez +13 >=5 Four Knight's Defence +12 >=5 Giucco Piano +12 >=5 Ponziani's Opening +12 > >White's Worst Openings (Based on White Win % minus Black Win %) > >Position Opening Difference % >1 Anderssen's Opening -18 >2 Grob Opening -13 >3 Bird's Opening -4 >4 Anti-Veresov Opening -2 >5 Polish Opening -1 > >Black's Best Openings (Based on Black Win % minus White Win %) > >Position Opening Difference % >=1 Nimzo Indian -3 >=1 Pirc Defence -3 >=1 Sicilian Defence -3 >4 French Defence -5 >5 Alekhine Defence -6 > >Black's Worst Openings (Based on Black Win % minus White Win %) > >Position Opening Difference % >=1 Benoni Defence -23 >=1 St George's Defence -23 >=2 Budapest Gambit -20 >=2 Dutch Defence -20 >4 Philidor's Defence -19 >=5 Grunfeld Defence -16 >=5 Petroff's Defence -16 > >Most Drawish Openings (Based on openings with the highest Draw %) > >Position Opening Draw % >=1 Bogo-Indian Defence 40 >=1 English Opening 40 >=1 Four Knight's Defence 40 >=1 Grunfeld Defence 40 >=1 King's Indian Attack 40 > >Least Drawish Openings (Based on openings with the lowest Draw %) > >Position Opening Draw % >1 Blackburne Gambit 12 >2 Grob Opening 15 >3 St George's Defence 17 >4 King's Gambit 20 >=5 Centre Game 21 >=5 Polish Defence 21
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