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GM David Klein

Full name

David Klein

Born

1/1/1993 (age 32)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Netherlands

Retired

Rating

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Anderssen Variation (9 games)

Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation Accepted (8 games)

French Defense: Tarrasch, Closed (8 games)

Modern Defense: Standard Line (6 games)

Caro-Kann Defense: Modern Variation (6 games)

Black Pieces

Sicilian Defense: Open, Najdorf Variation (13 games)

Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov Variation (9 games)

Ruy López Opening: Berlin Defense (8 games)

Catalan Opening: Open Defense, Classical Line (7 games)

King's Indian Defense: Normal Variation (6 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
David Klein (2533) Stefan Kuipers (2504)	1-0	49	2024
David Klein (2534) Stefan Kuipers (2503)	0-1	36	2024
David Klein (2544) Erik van den Doel (2852)	0-1	60	2024
David Klein (2540) Erik van den Doel (2856)	½-½	32	2024
David Klein (2589) Robby Kevlishvili (2946)	0-1	46	2023
David Klein (2495) Georg Meier (2629)	0-1	63	2020
David Klein (2495) David Baramidze (2597)	0-1	71	2020
David Klein (2495) Lorenzo Lodici (2477)	0-1	59	2020
David Klein (2495) Grzegorz Nasuta (2561)	0-1	78	2020
David Klein (2495) Luca Moroni Jr (2532)	½-½	38	2020

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