Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To David Paulowich wrote on Sat, Feb 25, 2006 03:39 PM UTC:My old copy of Knut Neven's Research Database (2,652,000 games) has 3316 games from 1990 to 2001 (inclusive) beginning with 1.Nc3 d5 2.e4 and lasting at least 10 moves. White has 1294 wins, 864 draws and 1157 losses - scoring slightly higher than 52 percent. I used a ChessBase position search: one third of those games actually started with the moves 1.e4 d5 2.Nc3 Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Chess Openings does not match any item.