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John Ontiveros's chess openings

🇮🇸 IcelandFIDE 183787 games

John Ontiveros, from Iceland, has 87 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, John Ontiveros most often opens with 1.d4 (100% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e5, the Open Game; against 1.d4 it is 1...d5.

As White41 games · +15 =6 −20 · 44%
As Black46 games · +9 =11 −26 · 32%

As White

  1. 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening100%
    41 games · scores 44% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4

As Black against 1.e4

  1. 1...e5 Open Game54%
    15 games · scores 27% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6
  2. 1...c6 Caro-Kann Defense21%
    6 games · scores 42% · main line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5
  3. 1...d5 Scandinavian Defense14%
    4 games · scores 25% · main line 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5

As Black against 1.d4

  1. 1...d5 Closed Game62%
    8 games · scores 44% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6
  2. 1...Nf6 Indian Defense38%
    5 games · scores 20% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7

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