South AfricaRSA
ID: 14385228

Samkelo Matthews

FIDE ratings

No FIDE ratings available.

Performance

50 games
34% Win
30% Draw
36% Loss

Samkelo Matthews's playing style

Overall score:49%17W 15D 18L over 50 games
Best with 1.e4 as White:50%in 27 games
Steady recent form:50%7W 6D 7L in last 20 games
Hard to beat — high draw rate:30%of games are draws

Openings as White

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

Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation
33%
33%
33%
3g
Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Anti-Berlin Variation
50%
50%
2g
French Defense: Steinitz Variation, Boleslavsky Variation
50%
50%
2g
French Defense: Winawer Variation, Advance Variation
100%
1g
Sicilian Defense: Hyperaccelerated Dragon
100%
1g

Openings as Black

Among the openings shown, Sicilian Defense: Kan Variation, Knight Variation has the largest Black sample, with 3 games. These results describe the available sample, not a prediction of the player’s next choice.

Sicilian Defense: Kan Variation, Knight Variation
33%
67%
3g
Sicilian Defense: Closed
100%
1g
Old Indian Defense
100%
1g
Indian Defense: Przepiorka Variation
100%
1g
Sicilian Defense: Kan Variation
100%
1g

Repertoire

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

Starting position

28 games in this line · White to move

Results for Matthews, Samkelo as white · Wins / Draws / Losses

W / D / L
32%
36%
32%
Move
27 · 96%
33%
33%
33%
1 · 4%
100%

Game History

(50 games)
DateSourceColorOpponentResultLink
Nov 21, 2019
OTB - PGN-Mentor
FMRinas, Oleg(2420)
D—
Nov 15, 2019
OTB - PGN-Mentor
Aird, Ian(1853)
W—
Nov 13, 2019
OTB - PGN-Mentor
GMMarin, Mihail(2521)
L—
Nov 12, 2019
OTB - PGNMentor
Ciobanu, Bogdan-Mihail(1777)
W—
Nov 28, 2018
OTB - PGN-Mentor
Malinovsky, Petr(2048)
W—
Nov 27, 2018
OTB - PGN-Mentor
Cetinkaya, Vedat Ali(2056)
L—
Nov 26, 2018
OTB - PGN-Mentor
FMCmiel, Thorsten(2122)
D—
Nov 24, 2018
OTB - PGN-Mentor
WFMBirkholz, Olga(2061)
W—
Nov 24, 2018
OTB - PGN-Mentor
IMMazi, Leon(2311)
L—
Nov 24, 2018
OTB - PGN-Mentor
Rashkovsky, Israel(1721)
L—

Research Samkelo Matthews’s games and opening repertoire

Samkelo Matthews plays for South Africa.

Samkelo Matthews has FIDE ID 14385228.

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