Indian Defence

Indian Defense - chess opening (1. d4 Nf6). Article “Indian Defence” in English Wikipedia has 55.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 16 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Indian Defence” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Indian Defence”, its content was written by 64 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 242 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 566 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1673 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #39685 in March 2017
• Global: #7578 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #21175 in November 2020
• Global: #38152 in November 2020

There are 19 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	English (en) Indian Defence		55.4006
2	Hebrew (he) הגנה הודית		35.5642
3	German (de) Indische Verteidigung		20.1686
4	French (fr) Défense indienne		19.1282
5	Greek (el) Ινδική άμυνα		16.0897
6	Czech (cs) Indické hry		15.7901
7	Swedish (sv) Indiskt försvar		14.428
8	Russian (ru) Индийский дебют		12.1995
9	Turkish (tr) Hint Savunması		11.585
10	Finnish (fi) Intialaiset puolustukset		10.3078

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Indian Defence" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Indian Defence		1 243 252
2	German (de) Indische Verteidigung		110 385
3	Italian (it) Difesa indiana		70 056
4	Chinese (zh) 印度防御		48 426
5	French (fr) Défense indienne		34 739
6	Portuguese (pt) Defesas Índias		27 569
7	Hungarian (hu) Indiai védelmek		14 415
8	Czech (cs) Indické hry		14 190
9	Finnish (fi) Intialaiset puolustukset		9 797
10	Greek (el) Ινδική άμυνα		8 282

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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 "Indian Defence" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Indian Defence		4 743
2	French (fr) Défense indienne		408
3	Italian (it) Difesa indiana		270
4	Chinese (zh) 印度防御		225
5	German (de) Indische Verteidigung		218
6	Russian (ru) Индийский дебют		145
7	Portuguese (pt) Defesas Índias		70
8	Finnish (fi) Intialaiset puolustukset		48
9	Turkish (tr) Hint Savunması		47
10	Hungarian (hu) Indiai védelmek		37

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Indian Defence		64
2	German (de) Indische Verteidigung		51
3	Hungarian (hu) Indiai védelmek		21
4	Italian (it) Difesa indiana		19
5	Finnish (fi) Intialaiset puolustukset		11
6	Dutch (nl) Indisch (schaakopening)		11
7	French (fr) Défense indienne		10
8	Chinese (zh) 印度防御		10
9	Portuguese (pt) Defesas Índias		9
10	Hebrew (he) הגנה הודית		6

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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 "Indian Defence" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Indian Defence		1
2	Hebrew (he) הגנה הודית		1
3	Turkish (tr) Hint Savunması		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Hind debütü		0
5	Czech (cs) Indické hry		0
6	German (de) Indische Verteidigung		0
7	Greek (el) Ινδική άμυνα		0
8	Finnish (fi) Intialaiset puolustukset		0
9	French (fr) Défense indienne		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Indiai védelmek		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 "Indian Defence" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Indian Defence		566
2	French (fr) Défense indienne		214
3	Italian (it) Difesa indiana		155
4	Greek (el) Ινδική άμυνα		120
5	Serbian (sr) Индијска одбрана (шах)		116
6	Korean (ko) 인디언 디펜스		88
7	Turkish (tr) Hint Savunması		83
8	Hebrew (he) הגנה הודית		72
9	Czech (cs) Indické hry		70
10	Chinese (zh) 印度防御		55

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Hind debütü
cs	Czech Indické hry
de	German Indische Verteidigung
el	Greek Ινδική άμυνα
en	English Indian Defence
fi	Finnish Intialaiset puolustukset
fr	French Défense indienne
he	Hebrew הגנה הודית
hu	Hungarian Indiai védelmek
it	Italian Difesa indiana
ko	Korean 인디언 디펜스
lt	Lithuanian Indiškosios sistemos
nl	Dutch Indisch (schaakopening)
pt	Portuguese Defesas Índias
ru	Russian Индийский дебют
sr	Serbian Индијска одбрана (шах)
sv	Swedish Indiskt försvar
tr	Turkish Hint Savunması
zh	Chinese 印度防御

Best Rank

English: #21175 11.2020

Global: #38152 11.2020

Best Rank

English: #39685 03.2017

Global: #7578 08.2003

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