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Player:
(Eg:
Carlsen,Magnus
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Menon, Shanker
FIDE
:
FIDE Card
Years
:
1994-2007
Number of games
:
72
Number of wins
:
31
Number of draws
:
16
Number of losses
:
25
White score
:
21½/36 (59.72% - Average Elo: 2175.85)
Black score
:
17½/36 (48.61% - Average Elo: 2178.43)
Rating progression
Games
White wins
White draws
White losses
Black wins
Black draws
Black losses
Top wins
Menon, Shanker (2241) - Hague, Ben (2250), BCF-chT 9900 (4NCL), Birmingham (B06) - 2000
Menon, Shanker (2237) - Addison, Bret (2222), Smith & Williamson YM 10th, Witley (B02) - 2000
Menon, Shanker (2072) - Houska, Jovanka (2168), Reading op 2nd, Reading (B01) - 1999
Baker, Chris W (2357) - Menon, Shanker (2241), BCF-chT 9900 (4NCL), Birmingham (B40) - 2000
Maduekwe, Chiedu U (2144) - Menon, Shanker (2237), London MSO Banwell Memorial, London (A43) - 2000
White, Mark (2142) - Menon, Shanker (2181), BCF-chT3b 0001 (4NCL), Birmingham (B34) - 2001
Menon, Shanker - ? (36)
Addison, Bret (1/1)
Arsenault, Nicolas (½/1)
Azadmanesh, Moosa (1/1)
Basman, Michael J (½/1)
Benaddi, Mouhcine (1/1)
Borg, Andy (1/1)
Bradford, Joseph M (0/1)
Casement, Stephen (½/1)
Compton, Alistair (1/1)
Conlon, Joseph P (½/1)
Dawson, Jeffery R (½/1)
D'Costa, Lorin AR (0/1)
Gupta, Abhijeet (½/1)
Hague, Ben (1/1)
Hanley, Craig (1/1)
Hardy, Roger (1/1)
Hill, David F (½/1)
Houska, Jovanka (1/1)
Kahar, Krunal (1/1)
Karavade, Eesha (1/1)
Lode, Sebastien (½/1)
MacDonald Ross, Michael (½/1)
Middelburg, Tom (0/1)
Millward, Richard (1/1)
Pahud, Cedric (1/1)
Palliser, Richard (0/1)
Perry, Graeme (1/1)
Potapov, Alexander (0/1)
Salem, Ihab (0/1)
Shevelev, Ilya (1/1)
Simutowe, Amon (0/1)
Taylor, Peter P (0/1)
Urbina Perez, Juan Antonio (0/1)
Vaculik, Martin (1/1)
Werner, Dimo (0/1)
Young, Melvyn Jack (1/1)
? - Menon, Shanker (34)
Greet, Andrew (½/2)
Pettersen, Joar Gullestad (1/2)
Andreassen, Lars (0/1)
Ansell, Simon (0/1)
Armstrong, Malcolm J (1/1)
Baker, Chris W (1/1)
Bitensky, Igor (0/1)
BYE (1/1)
Cherniaev, Alexander (0/1)
Daoudi, Kamal (½/1)
Deva, Chetan (1/1)
Egle, Helmut (1/1)
Falkenberg, Marc (1/1)
Galliano, Alexander (1/1)
Hansen, Torbjorn Ringdal (0/1)
Hickman, John (1/1)
Houska, Jovanka (0/1)
Johnston, Dafydd (0/1)
Joseph, Adrian (1/1)
Konakanchi, Ninad (½/1)
Larski, Stanislav (½/1)
Maduekwe, Chiedu U (1/1)
McCormack, Derek (0/1)
Moloney, Nicholas (0/1)
Player, Edmund C (0/1)
Quilter, Thomas A (1/1)
Rosen, Daniel B (½/1)
Sands, David A (½/1)
Sowray, Peter John (0/1)
Stokes, Ivan (½/1)
Vea, Odin Blikra (0/1)
Vinas Guerrero, Carlos Alberto (1/1)
White, Mark (1/1)
Williams, Simon Kim (0/1)
Openings played as White (29)
A13 English (1.c4 e6)
Average Elo:
2146
Result:
3/4 = 75%
A36 English (1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3)
Average Elo:
2131.67
Result:
2/3 = 66.67%
B02 Alekhine's Defense (1.e4 Nf6)
Average Elo:
2125
Result:
2/2 = 100%
B01 Scandinavian (1.e4 d5)
Average Elo:
2170.5
Result:
1½/2 = 75%
B16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ gxf6)
Average Elo:
2351
Result:
½/1 = 50%
A62 Benoni, Fianchetto Variation (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nf3 g6 7.g3 Bg7 8.Bg2 O-O)
Average Elo:
2084
Result:
1/1 = 100%
B35 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Modern Variation with Bc4 (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4)
Average Elo:
2137
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A47 Queen's Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b6)
Average Elo:
2453
Result:
0/1 = 0%
C57 Two Knights (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c5)
Average Elo:
2093
Result:
1/1 = 100%
B56 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3)
Average Elo:
2157
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4 (1.e4 c5 2.f4)
Average Elo:
2027
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B06 Robatsch (1.e4 g6)
Average Elo:
2250
Result:
1/1 = 100%
C01 French, Exchange (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bg5)
Average Elo:
2010
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A53 Old Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6)
Average Elo:
2037
Result:
1/1 = 100%
C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6)
Average Elo:
2137
Result:
1/1 = 100%
B33 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
1/1 = 100%
B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6)
Average Elo:
2198
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B22 Sicilian, Alapin (1.e4 c5 2.c3)
Average Elo:
2328
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B42 Sicilian, Kan (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3)
Average Elo:
2140
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A26 English (1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6)
Average Elo:
2322
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
1/1 = 100%
C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation, 6.d4 (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dc 5.O-O f6 6.d4)
Average Elo:
2505
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4)
Average Elo:
2185
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 O-O)
Average Elo:
1880
Result:
1/1 = 100%
E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 d6 5.g3)
Average Elo:
2322
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B18 Caro-Kann, Classical (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5)
Average Elo:
2150
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B23 Sicilian, Closed (1.e4 c5 2.Nc3)
Average Elo:
2114
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A08 King's Indian Attack (1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 c5 3.Bg2)
Average Elo:
2353
Result:
0/1 = 0%
Openings played as Black (26)
B34 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.Nxc6)
Average Elo:
2142
Result:
2/3 = 66.67%
B27 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3)
Average Elo:
2316
Result:
0/3 = 0%
B22 Sicilian, Alapin (1.e4 c5 2.c3)
Average Elo:
2289
Result:
2/3 = 66.67%
B20 Sicilian (1.e4 c5)
Average Elo:
2102.67
Result:
½/3 = 16.67%
B23 Sicilian, Closed (1.e4 c5 2.Nc3)
Average Elo:
2262
Result:
½/2 = 25%
A30 English, Symmetrical (1.c4 c5)
Average Elo:
2198
Result:
1/2 = 50%
B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A03 Bird's Opening (1.f4 d5)
Average Elo:
1826
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A00 Uncommon Opening (1.g4, a3, h3, etc.)
Average Elo:
2120
Result:
1/1 = 100%
C06 French, Tarrasch (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4)
Average Elo:
1976
Result:
1/1 = 100%
C10 French (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3)
Average Elo:
2190
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3)
Average Elo:
2080
Result:
½/1 = 50%
C01 French, Exchange (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bg5)
Average Elo:
2336
Result:
0/1 = 0%
C14 French, Classical (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.Bxe7 Qxe7)
Average Elo:
2228
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B40 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6)
Average Elo:
2357
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D35 Queen's Gambit Declined (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6)
Average Elo:
2353
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A19 English, Mikenas-Carls, Sicilian Variation (1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 c5)
Average Elo:
2183
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A04 Reti Opening (1.Nf3)
Average Elo:
2266
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A43 Old Benoni (1.d4 c5)
Average Elo:
2144
Result:
1/1 = 100%
E12 Queen's Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6)
Average Elo:
2242
Result:
½/1 = 50%
Uncommon Opening (1.g4, a3, h3, etc.)
Average Elo:
2066
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3)
Average Elo:
2160
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B87 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5 (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Bc4 a6 7.Bb3 b5)
Average Elo:
2044
Result:
½/1 = 50%
C02 French, Advance (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
1/1 = 100%
B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6)
Average Elo:
2052
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5)
Average Elo:
2032
Result:
1/1 = 100%