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James Black

James Black
Full name
James Black
Born
1998 (age 28)‎
Place of birth
Federation
United States
Profiles
#5959
World Ranking
2114
Classical
2199
Rapid
2253
Blitz

Rating

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces
Grünfeld Defense: Stockholm Variation (2 games)
English Opening: King's English Variation (1 games)
English Opening: Carls-Bremen, Reversed Dragon Variation (1 games)
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Sämisch, Keres Variation (1 games)
English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense (1 games)
Black Pieces
Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange, Rubinstein Variation (2 games)
Semi-Slav Defense: Anti-Meran, Anti-Moscow Gambit (2 games)
Dutch Defense: Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky Variation (1 games)
King's Indian Attack (1 games)
Slav Defense (1 games)

Games

Players Result Moves Year
James Black (2503)
Yinn Long Wong (2859)
1-0 26 2025
James Black (2514)
Mikayel Manvelyan (2724)
1-0 68 2025
James Black (2538)
Jan Gustafsson (2792)
0-1 43 2025
Anastasia Avramidou (2731)
James Black (2526)
0-1 48 2025
Hamidreza Ebrahimi Herab (2806)
James Black (2517)
1-0 62 2025
mohamad seder (2694)
James Black (2535)
1-0 49 2025
Sabina-Francesca Foisor (2274)
James Black (2143)
1-0 60 2019
James Black (2164)
Awonder Liang (2554)
0-1 35 2017
Rahul Srivatshav P (2373)
James Black (2164)
1-0 34 2017
Arthur Guo (2219)
James Black (2164)
1-0 34 2017
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