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Mathieu Duval's chess openings

🇨🇦 CanadaFIDE 201857 games

Mathieu Duval, from Canada, has 57 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Mathieu Duval most often opens with 1.d4 (89% 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 White28 games · +9 =9 −10 · 48%
As Black29 games · +11 =9 −9 · 53%

As White

  1. 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening89%
    25 games · scores 50% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4
  2. 1.c4 English Opening11%
    3 games · scores 33% · main line 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 exd5

As Black against 1.e4

  1. 1...c6 Caro-Kann Defense40%
    6 games · scores 67% · main line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5
  2. 1...c5 Sicilian Defense33%
    5 games · scores 50% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4
  3. 1...g6 Modern Defense27%
    4 games · scores 63% · main line 1.e4 g6 2.d4 d6 3.c4 Bg7

As Black against 1.d4

  1. 1...Nf6 Indian Defense75%
    6 games · scores 42% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5
  2. 1...d5 Closed Game25%
    2 games · scores 25% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 Bf5

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