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ID: 813532

Costel Catana

FIDE ratings

2,088Classical

Performance

50 games
52% Win
10% Draw
38% Loss

Costel Catana's playing style

Strong overall score:57%26W 5D 19L over 50 games
Dominates 1.e4 as White:82%in 19 games
Struggles in the Sicilian Defense as Black:40%in 20 games
Steady recent form:50%10W 0D 10L in last 20 games

Openings as White

Among the openings shown, Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation has the largest White sample, with 2 games. Select a row to explore its moves and inspect example games below.

Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Classical Variation
100%
2g
Petrov's Defense: Three Knights Game
100%
2g
Czech Defense
100%
2g
Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation, Classical Variation
100%
2g
Three Knights Opening
100%
2g

Openings as Black

Among the openings shown, Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Smith-Morra Declined has the largest Black sample, with 6 games. These results describe the available sample, not a prediction of the player’s next choice.

Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Smith-Morra Declined
67%
33%
6g
Queen's Gambit Declined
40%
40%
20%
5g
Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation, Yugoslav Attack, Early Deviations
50%
50%
4g
Sicilian Defense: Closed
100%
2g
English Opening: King's English Variation, Two Knights Variation
100%
2g

Repertoire

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

Starting position

19 games in this line · White to move

Results for Catana, Costel as white · Wins / Draws / Losses

W / D / L
74%
16%
11%
Move
19 · 100%
74%
16%
11%

Game History

(50 games)
DateSourceColorOpponentResultLink
Dec 8, 2005
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Ragni, Paolo(2159)
L—
Dec 8, 2005
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Ragni, Paolo(2159)
L—
Dec 7, 2005
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Pepino, Enrico(2149)
L—
Dec 7, 2005
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Pepino, Enrico(2149)
L—
Dec 6, 2005
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Bjarnason, Oskar(2258)
W—
Dec 6, 2005
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Bjarnason, Oskar(2258)
W—
Dec 5, 2005
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Ferretti, Carlo(2030)
W—
Dec 5, 2005
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Ferretti, Carlo(1895)
W—
Dec 4, 2005
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Sorcinelli, Francesco(2071)
L—
Dec 4, 2005
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Sorcinelli, Francesco(2071)
L—

Research Costel Catana’s games and opening repertoire

Costel Catana is rated 2088 in standard by FIDE. Costel Catana plays for Italy.

Costel Catana has FIDE ID 813532.

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