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Marcelo dos Santos Silva's chess openings

🇧🇷 BrazilFIDE 191355 games

Marcelo dos Santos Silva, from Brazil, has 55 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Marcelo dos Santos Silva most often opens with 1.c4 (100% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e6, the French Defense; against 1.d4 it is 1...e6.

As White25 games · +8 =7 −10 · 46%
As Black30 games · +11 =3 −16 · 42%

As White

  1. 1.c4 English Opening100%
    25 games · scores 46% · main line 1.c4 Nf6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7

As Black against 1.e4

  1. 1...e6 French Defense88%
    15 games · scores 33% · main line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4
  2. 1...c5 Sicilian Defense12%
    2 games · scores 0% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.g3 Nf6

As Black against 1.d4

  1. 1...e6 Horwitz Defense100%
    10 games · scores 65% · main line 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.g3 Nf6

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