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Openings

WorksheetEvery click puts together 20 new puzzles of Openings at random to print – or 10, 30 or 40, 10 a page, with a page of solutions if you like.As a PDF: choose “Save as PDF” in the print window of the browser.

Every opening has its tactics.

The puzzles by the opening of their game, in the volumes of the ECO and in each volume the openings with the most puzzles first. A click on an opening leads to its puzzles.

A · Flank openings

21,618 puzzles from 18 openings.

  1. English Opening7,288
  2. Dutch Defense2,263
  3. Benoni Defense2,192
  4. Zukertort Opening1,226
  5. King's Indian Attack1,223
  6. Réti Opening777
  7. Old Indian Defense578
  8. Englund Gambit528
  9. Benko Gambit Declined527
  10. Rat Defense515
  11. Van Geet Opening369
  12. Bird Opening362
  13. Nimzo-Larsen Attack301
  14. Benko Gambit Accepted293
  15. Marienbad System258

B · Semi-open games

32,054 puzzles from 7 openings.

  1. Sicilian Defense22,623
  2. Caro-Kann Defense3,264
  3. Pirc Defense2,516
  4. Alekhine Defense1,000
  5. Scandinavian Defense932
  6. Nimzowitsch Defense421

E · Indian defences

15,405 puzzles from 8 openings.

  1. King's Indian Defense7,173
  2. Nimzo-Indian Defense3,212
  3. Queen's Indian Defense1,995
  4. Catalan Opening1,347
  5. Bogo-Indian Defense615
  6. Queen's Indian Defense, with e3453
  7. Blumenfeld Countergambit219