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ID: 1344455

Michael Blum

FIDE ratings

1,752Classical

Performance

50 games
12% Win
44% Draw
44% Loss

Michael Blum's playing style

Overall score:34%6W 22D 22L over 50 games
Best with 1.d4 as White:44%in 16 games
Struggles in the Caro-Kann Defense as Black:28%in 18 games
Steady recent form:35%4W 6D 10L in last 20 games
Hard to beat — high draw rate:44%of games are draws

Openings as White

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

Benoni Defense: Modern Variation
50%
50%
4g
Sicilian Defense: Open
100%
2g
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, Lipnitsky Attack
100%
2g
Sicilian Defense: O'Kelly Variation, Normal System, Taimanov Line
100%
2g
Slav Defense
100%
2g

Openings as Black

Among the openings shown, Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation, Botvinnik-Carls Defense 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: Advance Variation, Botvinnik-Carls Defense
50%
50%
4g
Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack, Modern Defense, Carlsbad Line
50%
50%
4g
East Indian Defense
100%
2g
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Rubinstein System, Hübner Variation
100%
2g
Torre Attack: Fianchetto Defense
100%
2g

Repertoire

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

Starting position

22 games in this line · White to move

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

W / D / L
9%
64%
27%
Move
16 · 73%
13%
63%
25%
6 · 27%
67%
33%

Game History

(50 games)
DateSourceColorOpponentResultLink
May 15, 2015
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Pelezki, Jurij(1822)
L—
May 15, 2015
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Pelezki, Jurij(1822)
L—
May 14, 2015
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Zimmermann, Tobias(1804)
D—
May 14, 2015
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Zimmermann, Tobias(1804)
D—
May 30, 2014
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Schroeder, Stefan(1705)
L—
May 30, 2014
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Schroeder, Stefan(1845)
L—
May 30, 2014
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Ruehl, Volker(1831)
D—
May 30, 2014
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Ruehl, Volker(1831)
D—
Mar 18, 2012
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Kaufmann, David(1929)
D—
Mar 18, 2012
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Kaufmann Vazquez, David(1929)
D—

Research Michael Blum’s games and opening repertoire

Michael Blum is rated 1752 in standard by FIDE. Michael Blum plays for Switzerland.

Michael Blum has FIDE ID 1344455.

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