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Joel Hamalainen's chess openings

🇫🇮 FinlandFIDE 181910 games

Joel Hamalainen, from Finland, has 10 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Joel Hamalainen most often opens with 1.e4 (80% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...d5, the Scandinavian Defense; against 1.d4 it is 1...Nf6.

As White5 games · +4 =0 −1 · 80%
As Black5 games · +0 =1 −4 · 10%

As White

  1. 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening80%
    4 games · scores 75% · main line 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Bb5+ Nbd7
  2. 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening20%
    1 game · scores 100% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nf6 3.e3 Bf5

As Black against 1.e4

  1. 1...d5 Scandinavian Defense67%
    2 games · scores 25% · main line 1.e4 d5 2.d4 c6 3.e5 Bf5
  2. 1...c5 Sicilian Defense33%
    1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7

As Black against 1.d4

  1. 1...Nf6 Indian Defense100%
    1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 e6 3.e3 c5

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