Hrant Melkumyan's chess openings
GM🇦🇲 ArmeniaFIDE 26362,388 games
Hrant Melkumyan, Grandmaster from Armenia, has 2,388 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Hrant Melkumyan most often opens with 1.d4 (55% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e5, the Open Game; against 1.d4 it is 1...Nf6.
As White1,193 games · +684 =257 −252 · 68%
As Black1,195 games · +548 =340 −307 · 60%
As White
- 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening55%593 games · scores 67% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7
- 1.Nf3 Réti Opening17%182 games · scores 60% · main line 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7
- 1.c4 English Opening17%181 games · scores 74% · main line 1.c4 e6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 Nf6
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...e5 Open Game46%251 games · scores 57% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6
- 1...c6 Caro-Kann Defense29%159 games · scores 64% · main line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5
- 1...c5 Sicilian Defense18%98 games · scores 66% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...Nf6 Indian Defense76%296 games · scores 60% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7
- 1...d5 Closed Game23%91 games · scores 47% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6
- 1...e6 Horwitz Defense1%4 games · scores 75% · main line 1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 d5
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