Statistics for Most Common Chess Openings

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The sister opening to the Italian Game	Ruy López/Spanish Game	78%
Known as the most popular response to 1. e4	Sicilian Defence	78%
Sometimes used interchangeably with the "Giuoco Piano" opening	Italian Game	56%
Variations include Anglo-Indian, Anglo-Dutch, Anglo-Lithuanian, and Great Snake	English Opening	44%
One of GothamChess (IM Levy Rozman)'s favourite openings	Caro-Kann Defence	22%
Prone to collapsing very easily	French Defence	22%
Can lead to the Blumenfield Countergambit, Catalan Opening, Grünfield Defense, and Budapest Gambit	Indian Defence	22%
Considered "hardly worth using in the tournaments of the highest category" according to Garry Kasparov	Pirc Defence	11%
Classified as codes A04-A09	Réti Opening	11%
One of the oldest openings, being played in 32/34 of the 1927 World Chess Championship between Grandmasters Capablanca and Alekhine	Queen's Defence	0%