Ding Liren's chess openings
GM🇨🇳 ChinaFIDE 27233,000 games
Ding Liren, Grandmaster from China, has 3,000 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Ding Liren most often opens with 1.d4 (56% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e5, the Open Game; against 1.d4 it is 1...Nf6.
As White1,507 games · +557 =690 −260 · 60%
As Black1,493 games · +375 =770 −348 · 51%
As White
- 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening56%840 games · scores 60% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5
- 1.c4 English Opening19%286 games · scores 57% · main line 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 Nf6
- 1.Nf3 Réti Opening14%213 games · scores 63% · main line 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...e5 Open Game62%433 games · scores 48% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6
- 1...c5 Sicilian Defense15%108 games · scores 56% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4
- 1...c6 Caro-Kann Defense11%78 games · scores 62% · main line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...Nf6 Indian Defense91%478 games · scores 51% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5
- 1...d5 Closed Game8%42 games · scores 57% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6
- 1...d61%3 games · scores 83% · main line 1.d4 d6 2.e4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6
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