Joao Cruz's chess openings
🇵🇹 PortugalFIDE 17668 games
Joao Cruz, from Portugal, has 8 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Joao Cruz most often opens with 1.d4 (60% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e5, the Open Game; against 1.d4 it is 1...d5.
As White5 games · +1 =1 −3 · 30%
As Black3 games · +0 =2 −1 · 33%
As White
- 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening60%3 games · scores 33% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7
- 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening40%2 games · scores 25% · main line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...e5 Open Game50%1 game · scores 50% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6
- 1...c5 Sicilian Defense50%1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 a6 3.d4 cxd4
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...d5 Closed Game100%1 game · scores 50% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nf6 3.e3 c5
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