Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I rongonui i muri i te whakauru mai a Ernst Grünfeld ki te takaro o te ao i Vienna i te 1922, i reira, i tana keemu tuatahi me te tiaki, i hinga ia i te toa o te ao a Alexander Alekhine. I whakamahia e Grünfeld he momo tino tawhito. I muri mai ka tangohia e te hunga kaitakaro rongonui, tae atu ki a Vasily Smyslov, Viktor Korchnoi, Leonid Stein, me Bobby Fischer. I whakamahia e Garry Kasparov te tiaki, tae atu ki ana whakataetae Whakataetae o te Ao ki a Anatoly Karpov i te 1986, 1987 me te 1990, me Vladimir Kramnik i te 2000. I tenei wa ko nga kaitakaro rongonui e whakamahi ana i te whakatuwheratanga ko Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Loek van Wely, Peter Svidler, Peter Leko, Viswanathan Anand, Luke McShane me Gata Kamsky. E rua nga wa i whakamahia ai e Anand i te World Chess Championship 2010. I te 2012 World Chess Championship i waenga i a Anand me Boris Gelfand, i whakamahia e ia kaitakaro te Grünfeld kotahi me nga keemu e rua i mutu i te toenga. I aro atu a Anand ki te Grünfeld ki a Magnus Carlsen i te kēmu tuatahi o te
Ko te Whakataetae o te Ao 2014 me te whakaoti i te Rook me te Kuini.