ScotlandSCO
ID: 2405938

David Houston

FIDE ratings

No FIDE ratings available.

Performance

50 games
28% Win
44% Draw
28% Loss

David Houston's playing style

Overall score:50%14W 22D 14L over 50 games
Best with 1.e4 as White:54%in 24 games
Strongest in classical:50%in 48 games
Steady recent form:55%7W 8D 5L in last 20 games
Hard to beat — high draw rate:44%of games are draws

Openings as White

Among the openings shown, Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation has the largest White sample, with 3 games. Select a row to explore its moves and inspect example games below.

Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation
67%
33%
3g
Sicilian Defense: Open
100%
3g
Petrov's Defense: Modern Attack, Center Variation
100%
2g
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations, Tartakower
100%
2g
Sicilian Defense: Taimanov Variation, Bastrikov Variation
100%
1g

Openings as Black

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

Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense
20%
40%
40%
5g
Italian Game: Hungarian Defense
50%
50%
2g
Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation
50%
50%
2g
King's Gambit Accepted: Becker Defense
100%
2g
King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation
100%
2g

Repertoire

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

Starting position

25 games in this line · White to move

Results for Houston, David as white · Wins / Draws / Losses

W / D / L
28%
52%
20%
Move
24 · 96%
29%
50%
21%
1 · 4%
100%

Game History

(50 games)
DateSourceColorOpponentResultLink
Feb 25, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
Zoernpfenning, Siegfried(2063)
W—
Feb 23, 2025
OTB - LichessBroadcast
GMGarcia Palermo, Carlos Horacio(2412)
L—
Nov 1, 2018
OTB - AjedrezCorr
CMThurlow, Kevin J(2021)
D—
Nov 1, 2018
OTB - AjedrezCorr
CMThurlow, Kevin J(2021)
L—
Feb 19, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Wolferink, Frans(2095)
W—
Feb 19, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Li, Henry III(2243)
W—
Feb 18, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
IMO`Gorman, Tom(2100)
L—
Feb 18, 2017
OTB - PGN-Mentor
GMHebden, Mark L(2486)
L—
Feb 17, 2017
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Tirziman, Rudolf(1974)
W—
Feb 21, 2016
OTB - PGN-Mentor
Mulligan, Scott(1895)
D—

Research David Houston’s games and opening repertoire

David Houston plays for Scotland.

David Houston has FIDE ID 2405938.

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