Niels Skou's chess openings
🇩🇰 DenmarkFIDE 2049142 games
Niels Skou, from Denmark, has 142 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Niels Skou most often opens with 1.d4 (71% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e5, the Open Game; against 1.d4 it is 1...Nf6.
As White73 games · +20 =12 −41 · 36%
As Black69 games · +20 =10 −39 · 36%
As White
- 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening71%50 games · scores 32% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4
- 1.c4 English Opening13%9 games · scores 72% · main line 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 d6
- 1.Nf3 Réti Opening9%6 games · scores 33% · main line 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 c6
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...e5 Open Game68%23 games · scores 39% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5
- 1...d5 Scandinavian Defense12%4 games · scores 25% · main line 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Nxd5
- 1...c5 Sicilian Defense12%4 games · scores 38% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...Nf6 Indian Defense67%14 games · scores 57% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bf4 c5
- 1...d5 Closed Game33%7 games · scores 7% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6
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