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ID: 34365451

Leonid Nikolaev

FIDE ratings

1,451Classical

Performance

50 games
40% Win
36% Draw
24% Loss

Leonid Nikolaev's playing style

Strong overall score:58%20W 18D 12L over 50 games
Best with e4 vs 1.e4/1.d4 as Black:47%in 19 games
Struggles in the Sicilian Defense as Black:44%in 16 games
Steady recent form:65%10W 6D 4L in last 20 games
Hard to beat — high draw rate:36%of games are draws

Openings as White

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

Queen's Pawn Game: Symmetrical Variation
50%
50%
2g
King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation, King's Knight Variation
100%
2g
Yusupov-Rubinstein System
100%
2g
Réti Opening: Advance Variation
100%
1g
Sicilian Defense: Nyezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack, Fianchetto Variation, Gufeld Gambit
100%
1g

Openings as Black

Among the openings shown, Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon, Modern Variation has the largest Black sample, with 2 games. These results describe the available sample, not a prediction of the player’s next choice.

Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon, Modern Variation
50%
50%
2g
Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation, Smith-Morra Declined
100%
2g
Pirc Defense: Byrne Variation
100%
1g
Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation
100%
1g
Benoni Defense: Classical Variation, Traditional Variation
100%
1g

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 Nikolaev, Leonid as white · Wins / Draws / Losses

W / D / L
42%
42%
16%
Move
10 · 53%
50%
40%
10%
5 · 26%
60%
20%
20%
3 · 16%
67%
33%
1 · 5%
100%

Game History

(50 games)
DateSourceColorOpponentResultLink
Nov 29, 2018
OTB - PGN-Mentor
FMGjestemoen-VonHirsch, Andre(1993)
W—
Nov 28, 2018
OTB - PGN-Mentor
Nagy, Gabor(2464)
L—
Nov 26, 2018
OTB - PGN-Mentor
Caliz Morales, Felipe(1771)
W—
Aug 1, 2015
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
CMBaskakov, Egor(2011)
D—
Jul 31, 2015
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Paldus, Petr(2038)
W—
Jul 30, 2015
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Svedberg, Hans(2022)
D—
Jul 29, 2015
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Verwoert, Jef(2007)
W—
Jul 27, 2015
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Foermes, Alexander(2018)
L—
Jul 24, 2015
OTB - LumbrasGigaBase
Grashuis, Aldert-Jan(1945)
D—
Jul 25, 2013
OTB - PGN-Mentor
Mammadova, Narmin(1961)
W—

Research Leonid Nikolaev’s games and opening repertoire

Leonid Nikolaev is rated 1451 in standard by FIDE. Leonid Nikolaev plays for Russia.

Leonid Nikolaev has FIDE ID 34365451.

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