Joe Ball's chess openings
🇩🇪 GermanyFIDE 186919 games
Joe Ball, from Germany, has 19 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Joe Ball most often opens with 1.e4 (100% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...g6, the Modern Defense; against 1.d4 it is 1...g6.
As White8 games · +2 =2 −4 · 38%
As Black11 games · +1 =5 −5 · 32%
As White
- 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening100%8 games · scores 38% · main line 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nb6
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...g6 Modern Defense71%5 games · scores 50% · main line 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6
- 1...e6 French Defense14%1 game · scores 50% · main line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6
- 1...d6 Pirc Defense14%1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...g6 Modern Defense67%2 games · scores 25% · main line 1.d4 g6 2.Nf3 Bg7 3.g3 f5
- 1...f5 Dutch Defense33%1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.d4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.h3 d5
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