Joel Pimentel's chess openings
IM🇵🇭 PhilippinesFIDE 232090 games
Joel Pimentel, International Master from Philippines, has 90 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Joel Pimentel most often opens with 1.d4 (70% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...c5, the Sicilian Defense; against 1.d4 it is 1...Nf6.
As White46 games · +14 =13 −19 · 45%
As Black44 games · +19 =11 −14 · 56%
As White
- 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening70%32 games · scores 33% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5
- 1.Nf3 Réti Opening15%7 games · scores 71% · main line 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5
- 1.c4 English Opening9%4 games · scores 100% · main line 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 Bc5
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...c5 Sicilian Defense45%9 games · scores 39% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.f4 Nc6
- 1...g6 Modern Defense25%5 games · scores 100% · main line 1.e4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c5
- 1...e6 French Defense15%3 games · scores 83% · main line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...Nf6 Indian Defense70%7 games · scores 50% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5
- 1...d5 Closed Game20%2 games · scores 50% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 Bf5
- 1...c5 Old Benoni Defense10%1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.d4 c5 2.d5 Nf6 3.c4 b5
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