Grunfeld Defense
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5
Black lets White build a big pawn center, then attacks it with pieces and the ...c5 break.
As White: 60% score in 570 games (306 wins, 75 draws, 189 losses).
As Black: 56% score in 815 games (414 wins, 89 draws, 312 losses).
Who plays it most
- FM Tikhon Popov: 35 games as Black, scores 53%
- GM Vlastimil Jansa: 33 games as Black, scores 52%
- GM Tal Baron: 32 games as Black, scores 56%
- GM Petar Drenchev: 31 games as Black, scores 76%
- GM Toms Kantans: 30 games as Black, scores 48%
- GM Abhijeet Gupta: 28 games as Black, scores 57%
- GM porguntil: 25 games as Black, scores 32%
- GM o: 24 games as Black, scores 73%
- GM gmyarick: 24 games as Black, scores 56%
- GM Pouria Darini: 23 games as Black, scores 43%
- GM aksaeze: 20 games as Black, scores 60%
- GM lembke407: 19 games as Black, scores 71%
- GM Michael Brown: 19 games as White, scores 55%
- GM Chessbrah TV: 18 games as Black, scores 72%
- GM Jayson Gonzales: 18 games as White, scores 61%
From the recent public Chess.com games of 218 players on the top players list, updated about once a week. Score = wins plus half the draws.