EnglandENG
ID: 432695

Matthew Best

FIDE ratings

No FIDE ratings available.

Performance

24 games
29% Win
29% Draw
42% Loss

Matthew Best's playing style

Overall score:44%7W 7D 10L over 24 games
Steady recent form:40%5W 6D 9L in last 20 games

Openings as White

Among the openings shown, Mexican Defense has the largest White sample, with 3 games. Select a row to explore its moves and inspect example games below.

Mexican Defense
100%
3g
Catalan Opening
100%
3g
Queen's Gambit Declined: Baltic Defense
100%
2g
King's Gambit Accepted: Abbazia Defense
100%
2g
King's Gambit Declined: Classical Variation
100%
2g

Openings as Black

Among the openings shown, French Defense: Advance Variation, Milner-Barry Gambit has the largest Black sample, with 3 games. These results describe the available sample, not a prediction of the player’s next choice.

French Defense: Advance Variation, Milner-Barry Gambit
100%
3g
French Defense: Tarrasch Variation, Closed Variation
100%
2g

Repertoire

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

Starting position

15 games in this line · White to move

Results for Best, Matthew as white · Wins / Draws / Losses

W / D / L
20%
47%
33%
Move
9 · 60%
33%
33%
33%
6 · 40%
67%
33%

Game History

(24 games)
DateSourceColorOpponentResultLink
Feb 22, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Jennings, Richard(1950)
D—
Feb 22, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Jennings, Richard(1950)
D—
Feb 22, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Jennings, Richard(1950)
D—
Feb 21, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Dolgun, Mikhail S(1727)
W—
Feb 21, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Hordnes, Niclas(1892)
L—
Feb 21, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Hordnes, Niclas(1892)
L—
Feb 21, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Dolgun, Mikhail S(1704)
W—
Feb 21, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Dolgun, Mikhail S(1727)
W—
Feb 21, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Hordnes, Niclas(1892)
L—
Jul 2, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Livesey, R Nigel(1797)
W—

Research Matthew Best’s games and opening repertoire

Matthew Best plays for England.

Matthew Best has FIDE ID 432695.

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