Samuel Sevian's chess openings
GM🇺🇸 United StatesFIDE 27083,617 games
Samuel Sevian, Grandmaster from United States, has 3,617 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Samuel Sevian most often opens with 1.e4 (68% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e5, the Open Game; against 1.d4 it is 1...Nf6.
As White1,835 games · +981 =506 −348 · 67%
As Black1,782 games · +824 =526 −432 · 61%
As White
- 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening68%1,155 games · scores 67% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4
- 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening16%269 games · scores 67% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5
- 1.c4 English Opening12%210 games · scores 69% · main line 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.Nf3 Nc6
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...e5 Open Game59%415 games · scores 58% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6
- 1...c5 Sicilian Defense17%117 games · scores 66% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4
- 1...c6 Caro-Kann Defense15%103 games · scores 67% · main line 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...Nf6 Indian Defense88%479 games · scores 62% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4
- 1...d5 Closed Game9%49 games · scores 49% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6
- 1...g6 Modern Defense2%9 games · scores 44% · main line 1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6
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