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ID: 34600892

Michael Birken

FIDE ratings

1,966Classical
1,922Rapid

Performance

50 games
26% Win
28% Draw
46% Loss

Michael Birken's playing style

Overall score:40%13W 14D 23L over 50 games
Best with 1.e4 as White:40%in 21 games
In great form:55%10W 2D 8L in last 20 games

Openings as White

Among the openings shown, Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon, Modern Variation has the largest White sample, with 4 games. Select a row to explore its moves and inspect example games below.

Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon, Modern Variation
100%
4g
Caro-Kann Defense
67%
33%
3g
Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense
100%
2g
French Defense: Exchange Variation
100%
2g
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, Opocensky Variation
100%
2g

Openings as Black

Among the openings shown, Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation has the largest Black sample, with 5 games. These results describe the available sample, not a prediction of the player’s next choice.

Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation
40%
60%
5g
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations
50%
50%
4g
English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Queen's Knight Variation
67%
33%
3g
King's Indian Defense: Sämisch Variation, Normal Defense
100%
3g
Indian Defense: Wade-Tartakower Defense
100%
2g

Repertoire

21 games as white in scope
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Starting position

21 games in this line · White to move

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

W / D / L
38%
5%
57%
Move
21 · 100%
38%
5%
57%

Game History

(50 games)
DateSourceColorOpponentResultLink
Dec 30, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
Apel, Linus
W—
Dec 30, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
Apel, Linus(1908)
W—
Dec 29, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
Scheller, Thomas, Dr.(1705)
W—
Dec 29, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
Scheller, Thomas, Dr.
W—
Dec 28, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
Bubic, Zoran
W—
Dec 28, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
Bubic, Zoran(1725)
W—
Dec 28, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
Lehmann, Georg(1783)
W—
Dec 28, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
Lehmann, Georg
W—
Dec 27, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
Petersohn, Sadko
L—
Dec 27, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
FMEnglert, Luca(2275)
L—

Research Michael Birken’s games and opening repertoire

Michael Birken is rated 1966 in standard, 1922 in rapid by FIDE. Michael Birken plays for Germany.

Michael Birken has FIDE ID 34600892.

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