Answers.Body: <p>The following variation:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[FEN ""]
  
  1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Qd2!? Nf6 6.b3!?
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Was recently introduced by Carlsen in <a href="http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1918363" rel="noreferrer">Carlsen - Wojtaszek, Gashimov Memorial april 2018</a>. It's currently becoming popular with other grandmasters and <a href="https://www.chesspublishing.com/content/5/index.htm" rel="noreferrer">Chess Publishing has started referring to it as the Carlsen Variation</a>.</p>
  
  <p>If it turns out to be more than a fad for this season, I think that name will stick. Nobody played it before and the world champion introduced it to win a game in a top tournament.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Also, after Karpov, Kasparov has a variation in the Queen's Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Nc3) and Kramnik has a weird variation in the Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4)
  I didn't find anything for Anand and Carlsen, though.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>In the old days variations were named after players who did serious theoretical work and/or played one line consistently over a longer period. </p>
  
  <p>As openings got more and more analyzed it got increasingly more difficult to find new variations comparable to those old masters. Nowadays the top players might find a novelty around move 20 or so. If you want, you could call those lines <em>variation</em> and credit them to the player. I am sure some websites do just that, but personally I see a big difference between say the Najdorf variation and those side lines.</p>
  
  <p>So yes, probably somebody somewhere called something a Carlsen variation, but whether you consider it a variation is up to you. Also, perhaps it needs some more time until a line is called variation and maybe in 10 years people will agree to call a line Carlsen variation.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Does Magnus Carlsen have any openings/opening variations named for him?</p>
  
  <p>The last world champion I know of to have an opening variation named for him was Anatoly Karpov (e.g. Caro-Kann, Karpov Variation or Karpov Variation in the Ruy Lopez).</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Facepalm--I totally forgot Fischer's many variations... anyway, question still remains.
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Title: Does Magnus Carlsen have any openings/opening variations named for him?
ThreadText: # Does Magnus Carlsen have any openings/opening variations named for him?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-01-31)
  
  Does Magnus Carlsen have any openings/opening variations named for him?
  
  The last world champion I know of to have an opening variation named for him was Anatoly Karpov (e.g. Caro-Kann, Karpov Variation or Karpov Variation in the Ruy Lopez).
  
  **Tags:** opening, carlsen
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Facepalm--I totally forgot Fischer's many variations... anyway, question still remains.  
  > **username_1**: Yes, `1.[insert any move]` :-)  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_4 on 2018-01-31. Score: 10 | Accepted answer
  
  In the old days variations were named after players who did serious theoretical work and/or played one line consistently over a longer period.
  
  As openings got more and more analyzed it got increasingly more difficult to find new variations comparable to those old masters. Nowadays the top players might find a novelty around move 20 or so. If you want, you could call those lines *variation* and credit them to the player. I am sure some websites do just that, but personally I see a big difference between say the Najdorf variation and those side lines.
  
  So yes, probably somebody somewhere called something a Carlsen variation, but whether you consider it a variation is up to you. Also, perhaps it needs some more time until a line is called variation and maybe in 10 years people will agree to call a line Carlsen variation.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2018-06-21. Score: 7
  
  The following variation:
  
  ```
  [FEN ""]
  
  1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Qd2!? Nf6 6.b3!?
  
  ```
  
  Was recently introduced by Carlsen in [Carlsen - Wojtaszek, Gashimov Memorial april 2018](http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1918363). It's currently becoming popular with other grandmasters and [Chess Publishing has started referring to it as the Carlsen Variation](https://www.chesspublishing.com/content/5/index.htm).
  
  If it turns out to be more than a fad for this season, I think that name will stick. Nobody played it before and the world champion introduced it to win a game in a top tournament.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2018-02-21. Score: 4
  
  Also, after Karpov, Kasparov has a variation in the Queen's Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Nc3) and Kramnik has a weird variation in the Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4)
  I didn't find anything for Anand and Carlsen, though.
  
  
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