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Joshua Liu's chess openings

CM🇦🇺 AustraliaFIDE 194233 games

Joshua Liu, Candidate Master from Australia, has 33 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Joshua Liu most often opens with 1.e4 (47% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e6, the French Defense; against 1.d4 it is 1...e6.

As White17 games · +6 =0 −11 · 35%
As Black16 games · +4 =4 −8 · 38%

As White

  1. 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening47%
    8 games · scores 50% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4
  2. 1.e3 Van't Kruijs Opening29%
    5 games · scores 40% · main line 1.e3 d5 2.f4 Nf6 3.Nf3 g6
  3. 1.f4 Bird's Opening12%
    2 games · scores 0% · main line 1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 d6 3.exd6 Bxd6

As Black against 1.e4

  1. 1...e6 French Defense100%
    3 games · scores 83% · main line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bd7

As Black against 1.d4

  1. 1...e6 Horwitz Defense75%
    6 games · scores 33% · main line 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6
  2. 1...Nf6 Indian Defense13%
    1 game · scores 50% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 c5 3.dxc5 Nc6
  3. 1...f5 Dutch Defense13%
    1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.d4 f5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6

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