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ID: 4667824

Michael Benning

FIDE ratings

1,937Classical
1,937Rapid

Performance

50 games
20% Win
52% Draw
28% Loss

Michael Benning's playing style

Overall score:46%10W 26D 14L over 50 games
Best with 1.c4 as White:55%in 21 games
Steady recent form:40%2W 12D 6L in last 20 games
Hard to beat — high draw rate:52%of games are draws

Openings as White

Among the openings shown, English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Queen's Knight Variation has the largest White sample, with 6 games. Select a row to explore its moves and inspect example games below.

English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Queen's Knight Variation
100%
6g
English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Anglo-Grünfeld Variation
100%
2g
English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Hedgehog System
100%
2g
English Opening: King's English Variation, Four Knights Variation, Flexible Line
100%
2g
English Opening: Mikenas-Carls Variation
100%
2g

Openings as Black

Among the openings shown, Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation has the largest Black sample, with 4 games. These results describe the available sample, not a prediction of the player’s next choice.

Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation
100%
4g
Caro-Kann Defense: Karpov Variation, Modern Variation
100%
2g
Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation, Rubinstein Variation
100%
2g
English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Hedgehog System
100%
2g
Indian Defense: Knights Variation
100%
2g

Repertoire

27 games as white in scope
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Move arrowsfrequency, not engine evaluation

Starting position

27 games in this line · White to move

Results for Benning, Michael as white · Wins / Draws / Losses

W / D / L
15%
70%
15%
Move
21 · 78%
19%
71%
10%
6 · 22%
67%
33%

Game History

(50 games)
DateSourceColorOpponentResultLink
Jan 2, 2020
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Cevik, Dietmar(2239)
D—
Jan 2, 2020
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Cevik, Dietmar(2239)
D—
Jan 6, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Gehrke, Mathias(1786)
D—
Jan 6, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Poelig, Juergen(1894)
D—
Jan 6, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Poelig, Juergen(1894)
D—
Jan 5, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
FMBussard, Christian(2232)
L—
Jan 5, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Renner, Kai(2170)
D—
Jan 5, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Renner, Kai(2170)
D—
Jan 5, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
FMBussard, Christian(2232)
L—
Jan 3, 2015
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Santos, Leonardo(1474)
D—

Research Michael Benning’s games and opening repertoire

Michael Benning is rated 1937 in standard, 1937 in rapid by FIDE. Michael Benning plays for Germany.

Michael Benning has FIDE ID 4667824.

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