Vesa Meskanen's chess openings
🇫🇮 FinlandFIDE 2033190 games
Vesa Meskanen, from Finland, has 190 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Vesa Meskanen most often opens with 1.d4 (96% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e5, the Open Game; against 1.d4 it is 1...Nf6.
As White79 games · +22 =21 −36 · 41%
As Black111 games · +30 =22 −59 · 37%
As White
- 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening96%76 games · scores 41% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4
- 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening3%2 games · scores 50% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4
- 1.g3 Hungarian Opening1%1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.g3 d5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg2 b5
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...e5 Open Game63%38 games · scores 37% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6
- 1...c5 Sicilian Defense32%19 games · scores 26% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4
- 1...g6 Modern Defense5%3 games · scores 67% · main line 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 Nf6
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...Nf6 Indian Defense93%26 games · scores 35% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5
- 1...d5 Closed Game7%2 games · scores 0% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5
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