Brandon Zhu's chess openings
🇨🇦 CanadaFIDE 196568 games
Brandon Zhu, from Canada, has 68 tournament games in the ChessPrep database. As White, Brandon Zhu most often opens with 1.d4 (49% of games). As Black, against 1.e4 the usual reply is 1...e5, the Open Game; against 1.d4 it is 1...Nf6.
As White35 games · +11 =12 −12 · 49%
As Black33 games · +10 =4 −19 · 36%
As White
- 1.d4 Queen's Pawn Opening49%17 games · scores 53% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bf4 d5
- 1.e4 King's Pawn Opening34%12 games · scores 58% · main line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5
- 1.Nf3 Réti Opening11%4 games · scores 13% · main line 1.Nf3 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.c4 e6
As Black against 1.e4
- 1...e5 Open Game53%9 games · scores 44% · main line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6
- 1...c5 Sicilian Defense24%4 games · scores 0% · main line 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6
- 1...c6 Caro-Kann Defense12%2 games · scores 0% · main line 1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 Bg4
As Black against 1.d4
- 1...Nf6 Indian Defense44%4 games · scores 63% · main line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4
- 1...d5 Closed Game44%4 games · scores 50% · main line 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6
- 1...d611%1 game · scores 0% · main line 1.d4 d6 2.e4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5
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