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Openings in Descending Order
This list was compiled from the December 2002 Chess Life 
Index of all the games for that year.
Example: There were 73 Sicilian Defense games published in Chess Life for the year of 2002

1.	73 Sicilian Defense
SICILIAN def. ALAPIN var.
SICILIAN def. BOLESLAVSKY def.
SICILIAN def. CLOSED SYSTEM
SICILIAN def. DRAGON var.
SICILIAN def. LABOURDONNAIS var.
SICILIAN def. LASKER var.
SICILIAN def. MAROCZY BIND
SICILIAN def. NAJDORF var.
SICILIAN def. PAULSEN var.
SICILIAN def. RICHTER ATTACK
SICILIAN def. SCHEVENINGEN var.
SICILIAN def. SIMAGIN var.
SICILIAN def. SOZIN ATTACK

		
2.	29 French Defense
FRENCH def. CLASSICAL var.
FRENCH def. TARRASCH var.
FRENCH def. WINAWER var.

3.	25 Ruy Lopez
RUY LOPEZ. BERLIN def.
RUY LOPEZ. BIRD'S def.
RUY LOPEZ. BREYER var.
RUY LOPEZ. CHIGORIN def.
RUY LOPEZ. CLASSICAL def.
RUY LOPEZ. EXCHANGE var.
RUY LOPEZ. MARSHALL ATTACK
RUY LOPEZ. STEINITZ DEFERRED 
RUY LOPEZ. OPEN def.
RUY LOPEZ. SCHLIEMANN var.
RUY LOPEZ. SMYSLOV var.
RUY LOPEZ. ZAITSEV var

4.	18 King’s Indian Defense
KING'S INDIAN def. CLASSICAL var.
KING'S INDIAN def. FIANCHETTO var.
KING'S INDIAN def. FOUR PAWNS' ATTACK
KING'S INDIAN def. SAEMISCH var.

5.	18 Nimzo-Indian Defense
NIMZO-INDIAN def. LENIGRAD var.
NIMZO-INDIAN def. RUBINSTEIN var.
NIMZO-INDIAN def. SAEMISCH var.

6.	18 Queen’s Gambit Declined
7.	15 Caro-Kann Defense
8.	15 English Opening
9.	14 Slav Defense
10.	12 Gruenfeld Defense

11.	8 Dutch Defense
DUTCH def. ILJIN GENEVSKY SYSTEM
DUTCH def. LENINGRAD SYSTEM
DUTCH def. STAUNTON gam.
DUTCH def. STONEWALL var.

12.	7 Catalan Opening
13.	7 Pirc Defense
14.	6 Phildor’s Defense

15.	6 Queen’s Gambit Accepted
QUEEN'S gam. ALBIN COUNTER gam.
QUEEN'S gam. CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS var.
QUEEN'S gam. EXCHANGE VARIATON
QUEEN'S gam. ORT def.
QUEEN'S gam. ORT def. LASKER def.
QUEEN'S gam. ORT def. TARTAKOWER def.
QUEEN'S gam. RAGOZIN SYSTEM
QUEEN'S gam. SEMI-SLAV def.
QUEEN'S gam. SEMI-TARRASCH def.
QUEEN'S gam. SLAV def.
QUEEN'S gam. TARRASCH def.
QUEEN'S gam. var. WITH 5.BF4

16.	5 King’s Gambit Accepted
17.	5 Two Knights Defense
18.	4 Petroff’s Defense
19.	3 Bishop’s Opening
20.	3 King’s Indian Attack
21.	3 Modern Benoni
22.	3 Old Indian Defense
23.	3 Pribyl Defense
24.	3 Queen’s Indian Defense

25.	3 Scotch Game
SCOTCH gam. & PONZIANI'S OPENING
SCOTCH GAME

26.	3 Vienna Game
27.	2 Alekhine’s Defense
28.	2 Benko Gambit
29.	2 Benoni Defense
30.	2 Colle Ststem
31.	2 Flank Opening
32.	2 Four Knight’s Game
33.	2 Giuoco Piano
34.	2 Modern Defense
35.	2 Nimzovich Defense
36.	2 Owen’s Defense
37.	2 Polish Opening
38.	2 Scotch Four Knights
39.	2 Trompowsky Attack
40.	1 Barcza System
41.	1 Basmania
42.	1 Bird-Indian Opening
43.	1 Businessman’s Opening
44.	1 Englund Gambit
45.	1 Bird Opening - From Gambit
46.	1 Grob Opening
47.	1 Irregular Opening
48.	1 King’s Fianchetto
49.	1 King’s Gambit Declined
50.	1 Larsen’ Opening
51.	1 Latvian Gambit
52.	1 London System
53.	1 Morra Gambit
54.	1 Neo-Gruenfeld Defense
55.	1 Nimzovich Attack
56.	1 Old Benoni
57.	1 Orangoutain
58.	1 Queen’s Indian Defense
59.	1 Queen’s Pawn Game
60.	1 Reti Opening
61.	1 Two Knight Tango



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