• open games ruy lopez berlin defence marshall attack / anti marshall open ruy lopez exchange variation arkhangelsk variation

italian game two knights game four knights game scotch game petroff defence vienna game philidor defence king's gambit

-semi open games sicilian defence najdorf variation scheveningen variation dragon variation accelerated dragon rossolimo variation sveshnikov variation kalashnikov variation taimanov alapin french defense winawer variation classical french tarrashch variation advance variation exchange variation caro-kann defence alekhine defence scandinavian defence pirc defence

• closed openings queen's gambit queen's gambit declined tarrasch defence slav defence semi-slav defence queen's gambit accepted chigorin defence albin counter gambit london system colle opening
• semi closed openings grunfeld defence king's indian defence nimzoindian defence queen's indiain defence catalan opening bogoindian defence benoni/benko gambit budapest gambit dutch defence torre attack trompowsky attack english opening
• other openings reti opening