Answers.Body: <p>SCID's Opening Report shows some statistics which may be useful here. From a given position, one of the things it does is generate a table which shows what moves are common from a given position:</p>
  <pre><code>4.2 Moves from the report position
      Move   ECO       Frequency    Score  AvElo Perf AvYear %Draws
   1: Nf3    E10a     8561: 50.8%   56.1%  2622  2665  2009   56%
   2: Nc3    E00d     6495: 38.5%   55.6%  2607  2654  2008   54%
  </code></pre>
  <p>The &quot;AvYear&quot; column there shows the average year in which the move was played.</p>
  <p>And another table looks like this:</p>
  <pre><code>1.4 Current popularity
  
  Year               1800-99 1900-49 1950-69 1970-79 1980-89 1990-99 2000-09
  Once every X games   ---     24      19      13       6      33      12   
  
  Frequency in all years:   once every 12 games
  In the 10 years to today: once every 13 games (down 7% from all years)
  In the  5 years to today: once every 12 games (no change from all years)
  In the  1 year  to today: once every 0 games (no change from all years)
  </code></pre>
  <p>which seems like it would be useful.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am currently under the impression that White players are allowing the Nimzo-Indian more and more, whereas before they were dodging it via 3. Nf3.</p>
  <p>I wanted to check if that is true, but usually databases do not contain this information explicitly. Are there any resources (software or websites) that have this feature?</p>
  
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Title: Are there any resources where one can view the popularity of a move by year?
ThreadText: # Are there any resources where one can view the popularity of a move by year?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-10-10)
  
  I am currently under the impression that White players are allowing the Nimzo-Indian more and more, whereas before they were dodging it via 3. Nf3.
  
  I wanted to check if that is true, but usually databases do not contain this information explicitly. Are there any resources (software or websites) that have this feature?
  
  **Tags:** software, database, websites
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-10-11. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  SCID's Opening Report shows some statistics which may be useful here. From a given position, one of the things it does is generate a table which shows what moves are common from a given position:
  
  ```
  4.2 Moves from the report position
      Move   ECO       Frequency    Score  AvElo Perf AvYear %Draws
   1: Nf3    E10a     8561: 50.8%   56.1%  2622  2665  2009   56%
   2: Nc3    E00d     6495: 38.5%   55.6%  2607  2654  2008   54%
  
  ```
  
  The "AvYear" column there shows the average year in which the move was played.
  
  And another table looks like this:
  
  ```
  1.4 Current popularity
  
  Year               1800-99 1900-49 1950-69 1970-79 1980-89 1990-99 2000-09
  Once every X games   ---     24      19      13       6      33      12   
  
  Frequency in all years:   once every 12 games
  In the 10 years to today: once every 13 games (down 7% from all years)
  In the  5 years to today: once every 12 games (no change from all years)
  In the  1 year  to today: once every 0 games (no change from all years)
  
  ```
  
  which seems like it would be useful.
  
  
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