Flank opening

Flank opening - a set of opening moves in chess, in which White moves on the sides of the board instead of into the center. Article “Flank opening” in English Wikipedia has 25.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Greek Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Flank opening” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Flank opening”, its content was written by 22 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 115 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 527 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2010 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #215511 in April 2025
• Global: #15802 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #308381 in December 2020
• Global: #360281 in December 2020

There are 16 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Greek (el) Πλευρικό άνοιγμα		27.4404
2	Ukrainian (uk) Фланговий дебют		27.1031
3	English (en) Flank opening		25.5123
4	Swedish (sv) Flanköppning		14.0807
5	Finnish (fi) Laita-avaukset		12.4536
6	Catalan (ca) Obertura de flanc		11.6466
7	Dutch (nl) Flankspel		10.282
8	Spanish (es) Apertura de flanco		8.887
9	French (fr) Ouverture de flanc		6.312
10	Hebrew (he) פתיחת איגוף		5.1094

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Flank opening" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Flank opening		232 504
2	Russian (ru) Фланговые дебюты		120 653
3	Dutch (nl) Flankspel		18 656
4	Italian (it) Aperture laterali		11 177
5	Spanish (es) Apertura de flanco		6 922
6	French (fr) Ouverture de flanc		4 968
7	Finnish (fi) Laita-avaukset		4 139
8	Swedish (sv) Flanköppning		4 132
9	Hebrew (he) פתיחת איגוף		2 719
10	Lithuanian (lt) Flanginiai debiutai		2 136

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Flank opening" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Flank opening		684
2	Russian (ru) Фланговые дебюты		446
3	Dutch (nl) Flankspel		104
4	French (fr) Ouverture de flanc		42
5	Spanish (es) Apertura de flanco		38
6	Italian (it) Aperture laterali		33
7	Swedish (sv) Flanköppning		19
8	Turkish (tr) Kanat açılışı		16
9	Indonesian (id) Pembukaan sayap		13
10	Ukrainian (uk) Фланговий дебют		13

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Flank opening" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Фланговые дебюты		23
2	English (en) Flank opening		22
3	Dutch (nl) Flankspel		17
4	Italian (it) Aperture laterali		10
5	Finnish (fi) Laita-avaukset		8
6	Ukrainian (uk) Фланговий дебют		7
7	Spanish (es) Apertura de flanco		5
8	French (fr) Ouverture de flanc		5
9	Hebrew (he) פתיחת איגוף		4
10	Swedish (sv) Flanköppning		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Flank opening" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Flank opening		1
2	Catalan (ca) Obertura de flanc		0
3	Greek (el) Πλευρικό άνοιγμα		0
4	Esperanto (eo) Flanka malfermo		0
5	Spanish (es) Apertura de flanco		0
6	Finnish (fi) Laita-avaukset		0
7	French (fr) Ouverture de flanc		0
8	Hebrew (he) פתיחת איגוף		0
9	Indonesian (id) Pembukaan sayap		0
10	Italian (it) Aperture laterali		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Flank opening" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Flank opening		527
2	Russian (ru) Фланговые дебюты		286
3	Esperanto (eo) Flanka malfermo		183
4	Ukrainian (uk) Фланговий дебют		176
5	Italian (it) Aperture laterali		150
6	Greek (el) Πλευρικό άνοιγμα		126
7	Catalan (ca) Obertura de flanc		110
8	Swedish (sv) Flanköppning		91
9	French (fr) Ouverture de flanc		86
10	Turkish (tr) Kanat açılışı		80

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Obertura de flanc
el	Greek Πλευρικό άνοιγμα
en	English Flank opening
eo	Esperanto Flanka malfermo
es	Spanish Apertura de flanco
fi	Finnish Laita-avaukset
fr	French Ouverture de flanc
he	Hebrew פתיחת איגוף
id	Indonesian Pembukaan sayap
it	Italian Aperture laterali
lt	Lithuanian Flanginiai debiutai
nl	Dutch Flankspel
ru	Russian Фланговые дебюты
sv	Swedish Flanköppning
tr	Turkish Kanat açılışı
uk	Ukrainian Фланговий дебют

Best Rank

English: #308381 12.2020

Global: #360281 12.2020

Best Rank

English: #215511 04.2025

Global: #15802 09.2003

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