Catalan Opening
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3
White combines the Queen's Gambit with a kingside fianchetto, putting long-term pressure on Black's queenside.
As White: 58% score in 888 games (467 wins, 88 draws, 333 losses).
As Black: 58% score in 492 games (253 wins, 64 draws, 175 losses).
Who plays it most
- GM Andrey Sumets: 39 games as White, scores 50%
- liindseeyy: 31 games as White, scores 60%
- GM soloadelante: 29 games as White, scores 55%
- GM Sina Movahed: 28 games as White, scores 66%
- GM Joseph Girel: 25 games as White, scores 40%
- GM Davit Benidze: 24 games as White, scores 33%
- GM Zdenko Kozul: 23 games as White, scores 52%
- GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son: 22 games as Black, scores 68%
- GM Alexei Kornev: 22 games as White, scores 61%
- NM Vladyslav Khil: 22 games as Black, scores 52%
- GM Bogdan Daniel Deac: 21 games as Black, scores 45%
- FM Patrick Liu: 19 games as White, scores 45%
- FM Artin Ashraf: 19 games as Black, scores 58%
- GM Xu Zhihang: 18 games as White, scores 72%
- FM Behzad Salimiyan: 18 games as White, scores 56%
From the recent public Chess.com games of 244 players on the top players list, updated about once a week. Score = wins plus half the draws.