Manuel Petrosyan's chess openings
GM🇦🇲 ArmeniaFIDE 25762,301 games
Manuel Petrosyan, Grandmaster from Armenia, has 2,301 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Manuel Petrosyan most often opens with 1.d4 (48% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e5, the Open Game; against 1.d4 it is 1...Nf6.
As White1,154 games · +569 =398 −187 · 67%
As Black1,147 games · +470 =388 −289 · 58%
As White
- 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening48%501 games · scores 65% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5
- 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening19%204 games · scores 65% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6
- 1.c4 English Opening18%185 games · scores 69% · main line 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...e5 Open Game53%273 games · scores 53% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6
- 1...c5 Sicilian Defense25%129 games · scores 66% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4
- 1...c6 Caro-Kann Defense20%106 games · scores 61% · main line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...Nf6 Indian Defense88%352 games · scores 59% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5
- 1...d5 Closed Game8%33 games · scores 68% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6
- 1...d61%5 games · scores 60% · main line 1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 g6
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