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Marco Baldauf's chess openings

GM🇩🇪 GermanyFIDE 2435549 games

Marco Baldauf, Grandmaster from Germany, has 549 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Marco Baldauf most often opens with 1.d4 (68% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...c6, the Caro-Kann Defense; against 1.d4 it is 1...Nf6.

As White272 games · +108 =105 −59 · 59%
As Black277 games · +94 =97 −86 · 51%

As White

  1. 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening68%
    186 games · scores 56% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4
  2. 1.c4 English Opening11%
    31 games · scores 76% · main line 1.c4 e6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 Nf6
  3. 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening10%
    27 games · scores 59% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4

As Black against 1.e4

  1. 1...c6 Caro-Kann Defense45%
    56 games · scores 43% · main line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5
  2. 1...c5 Sicilian Defense27%
    34 games · scores 68% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4
  3. 1...e5 Open Game23%
    29 games · scores 57% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6

As Black against 1.d4

  1. 1...Nf6 Indian Defense78%
    75 games · scores 55% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5
  2. 1...d5 Closed Game19%
    18 games · scores 47% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6
  3. 1...e6 Horwitz Defense3%
    3 games · scores 33% · main line 1.d4 e6 2.c4 b6 3.g3 Bb7

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