Herbert Elstner's chess openings
🇩🇪 GermanyFIDE 217337 games
Herbert Elstner, from Germany, has 37 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Herbert Elstner most often opens with 1.e4 (93% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e5, the Open Game; against 1.d4 it is 1...d5.
As White14 games · +8 =3 −3 · 68%
As Black23 games · +6 =3 −14 · 33%
As White
- 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening93%13 games · scores 65% · main line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5
- 1.f4 Bird's Opening7%1 game · scores 100% · main line 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.b3 g6
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...e5 Open Game100%14 games · scores 46% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...d5 Closed Game50%2 games · scores 50% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 d4
- 1...Nf6 Indian Defense25%1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6
- 1...c5 Old Benoni Defense25%1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.d4 c5 2.Nf3 cxd4 3.Nxd4 Nf6
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