Scandinavian Defense
1.e4 d5
Black challenges e4 immediately. After 2.exd5 Black recaptures with the queen or the knight, getting simple development and an easy plan.
As White: 63% score in 2078 games (1220 wins, 166 draws, 692 losses).
As Black: 56% score in 2716 games (1410 wins, 215 draws, 1091 losses).
Who plays it most
- (AFM)_💞💓*M*💘🩷: 146 games as Black, scores 45%
- Arena Fide Master , 🤘 (AFM)🤘: 139 games as Black, scores 35%
- GM Miodrag Savic: 100 games as Black, scores 51%
- GM Praveen Thipsay: 92 games as Black, scores 52%
- GM chessonado: 81 games as Black, scores 61%
- GM Maxim Dlugy: 77 games as Black, scores 54%
- mortalundersky01: 77 games as Black, scores 32%
- theunknownsecretboss: 75 games as Black, scores 66%
- theystolemysanity: 64 games as White, scores 67%
- GM Thal Abergel: 62 games as White, scores 91%
- GM Nikolas Theodorou: 61 games as Black, scores 55%
- GM Xu Zhihang: 60 games as Black, scores 64%
- IM Arash Tahbaz: 56 games as Black, scores 43%
- IM Aleksandr Usov: 50 games as Black, scores 71%
- The hardest part is unlearning what was taught to me as normal: 48 games as Black, scores 69%
From the recent public Chess.com games of 474 players on the top players list, updated about once a week. Score = wins plus half the draws.