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ID: 2026015

Christopher Niggel

FIDE ratings

2,071Classical

Performance

50 games
40% Win
36% Draw
24% Loss

Christopher Niggel's playing style

Strong overall score:58%20W 18D 12L over 50 games
Dominates 1.e4 as White:69%in 16 games
In great form:70%11W 6D 3L in last 20 games
Hard to beat — high draw rate:36%of games are draws

Openings as White

Among the openings shown, Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Heral Variation has the largest White sample, with 2 games. Select a row to explore its moves and inspect example games below.

Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Heral Variation
100%
2g
Torre Attack: Fianchetto Defense
100%
2g
Indian Defense: Knights Variation
100%
2g
Sicilian Defense: Kramnik Variation
100%
2g
Philidor Defense: Steinitz Variation
100%
2g

Openings as Black

Among the openings shown, Queen's Gambit Declined: Charousek Variation has the largest Black sample, with 2 games. These results describe the available sample, not a prediction of the player’s next choice.

Queen's Gambit Declined: Charousek Variation
100%
2g
Petrov's Defense: Classical Attack
100%
2g
Ruy Lopez: Schliemann Defense, Tartakower Variation
100%
2g
Dutch Defense: Classical Variation
100%
2g
Bishop's Opening
100%
2g

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 Niggel, Christopher as white · Wins / Draws / Losses

W / D / L
50%
36%
14%
Move
16 · 57%
50%
38%
13%
10 · 36%
60%
20%
20%
2 · 7%
100%

Game History

(50 games)
DateSourceColorOpponentResultLink
Jul 22, 2012
OTB - PGN-Mentor
Galant, Sergey(2148)
L—
Jul 22, 2012
OTB - PGNMentor
Galant, Sergey(2165)
L—
Jul 21, 2012
OTB - PGNMentor
Ravits, Richard(1837)
W—
Jul 21, 2012
OTB - Codekiddy
Amburn, Thomas(2150)
D—
Jul 21, 2012
OTB - PGN-Mentor
Ravits, Richard
W—
Jul 21, 2012
OTB - BenBase
Case, Rick
W—
Jul 21, 2012
OTB - BenBase
Case, Rick(1517)
W—
Jul 21, 2012
OTB - Codekiddy
Amburn, Thomas(2140)
D—
May 28, 2012
OTB - BenBase
Gradsky, Benjamin(2119)
L—
May 27, 2012
OTB - PGN-Mentor
Wharry, Stephen(2009)
D—

Research Christopher Niggel’s games and opening repertoire

Christopher Niggel is rated 2071 in standard by FIDE. Christopher Niggel plays for United States.

Christopher Niggel has FIDE ID 2026015.

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