Thursday, January 21, 2021

Zurich 1953 Openings Index

As a d4 player, Bronstein's famous book on the Zurich Tournament seems to be invaluable. I broke down all games into groups of openings. I think the best thing to do is to choose one opening and work through the best games in that opening so this index should help.

Openings Played, sorted by frequency:

46 King's Indians - 7, 13, 20, 28, 30, 42, 43, 45, 50, 51, 58, 61, 67, 72, 73, 75, 80, 91, 100, 105, 107, 108, 114, 126, 131, 132, 139, 143, 152, 154, 158, 171, 173, 178, 180, 183, 184, 186, 189, 192, 193, 197, 199, 204, 206, 207

42 Nimzo-Indians - 2, 9, 11, 12, 14, 17, 24, 26, 32, 39, 41, 44, 49, 52, 54, 64, 71, 77, 94, 102, 104, 110, 118, 122, 133, 134, 136, 137, 140, 150, 159, 160, 163, 167, 176, 182, 195, 200, 201, 203, 208, 209

25 Queen's Gambits - 8, 18, 21, 33, 34, 38, 56, 57, 62, 63, 68, 86, 93, 109, 115, 128, 130, 138, 151, 155, 170, 179, 190, 205, 210

I'll study these first. Here are the QG classified by variation:
Tarrasch = 33, 38, 62, 93, 130, 155, 210
Exchange = 8, 86, 109, 151, 170. 190
Slav = 34, 115, 128, 205
Orthodox = 56, 57, 68, 138
Accepted = 18, 21, 63
Ragozin (I think there might be another one or two of these that I mis-categorized) = 179

23 Sicilians - 35, 36, 60, 65, 66, 78, 88, 89, 90, 99, 101, 103,  119, 120, 123, 127,  135, 146, 161, 165, 175, 177, 198

15 Queen's Indians - 22, 29, 46, 59, 79, 84, 95, 106, 147, 148, 156, 166, 172, 188, 202

10 Ruy Lopezes - 4, 40, 47, 70, 92, 116, 142, 181, 185, 196

9 Retis - 10, 69, 74, 76, 111, 117, 124, 164, 169

8 Grunfelds - 15, 19, 25, 48, 55, 85, 98, 129

7 Englishes - 3, 82, 141, 145, 157, 162, 168

7 Old Indians - 31, 37, 87, 96, 113, 121, 174

6 French Defenses - 23, 53, 83, 97, 112, 125

4 Catalans - 1, 16, 153, 194

3 Benonis - 5, 6, 27

3 Dutches - 144, 149, 191

2 Caro-Kanns - 81, 187

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