Peter Heine Nielsen's chess openings
GM🇩🇰 DenmarkFIDE 2614647 games
Peter Heine Nielsen, Grandmaster from Denmark, has 647 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Peter Heine Nielsen most often opens with 1.e4 (46% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e5, the Open Game; against 1.d4 it is 1...Nf6.
As White325 games · +132 =145 −48 · 63%
As Black322 games · +75 =180 −67 · 51%
As White
- 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening46%150 games · scores 64% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6
- 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening34%112 games · scores 62% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7
- 1.c4 English Opening11%37 games · scores 66% · main line 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...e5 Open Game46%75 games · scores 47% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6
- 1...c5 Sicilian Defense31%51 games · scores 62% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4
- 1...c6 Caro-Kann Defense13%21 games · scores 52% · main line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...Nf6 Indian Defense81%91 games · scores 44% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4
- 1...e6 Horwitz Defense9%10 games · scores 55% · main line 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.g3 Nf6
- 1...d5 Closed Game5%6 games · scores 33% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6
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