Blair Mandla's chess openings
CM🇦🇺 AustraliaFIDE 212648 games
Blair Mandla, Candidate Master from Australia, has 48 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Blair Mandla most often opens with 1.e4 (70% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...d5, the Scandinavian Defense; against 1.d4 it is 1...d5.
As White23 games · +12 =2 −9 · 57%
As Black25 games · +8 =5 −12 · 42%
As White
- 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening70%16 games · scores 44% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4
- 1.c4 English Opening22%5 games · scores 100% · main line 1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6
- 1.Nc3 Van Geet Opening4%1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.Nc3 d5 2.e4 d4 3.Nce2 e5
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...d5 Scandinavian Defense93%14 games · scores 36% · main line 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Bg4
- 1...c5 Sicilian Defense7%1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.f4 d5
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...d5 Closed Game50%3 games · scores 67% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6
- 1...c5 Old Benoni Defense50%3 games · scores 33% · main line 1.d4 c5 2.d5 e5 3.e4 d6
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