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GM Nick de Firmian

Full name

Nick De Firmian

Born

1/1/1957 (age 67)‎

Place of birth

Federation

United States

Retired

Rating

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

French Defense: Winawer, Positional Variation (41 games)

Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov Variation (29 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Classical, Anti-Sozin Variation (27 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Scheveningen, Sozin, Leonhardt, Main Line (24 games)

Caro-Kann Defense: Classical, Spassky Variation (22 games)

Black Pieces

English Opening: Symmetrical, Anti-Benoni, Spielmann Defense (36 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Najdorf, English Attack (35 games)

English Opening: Symmetrical Variation (29 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Najdorf, Opočenský, Traditional Line (29 games)

Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical Variation (26 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Nick de Firmian Advay Bansal	1-0	66	2023
Nick de Firmian Shelev Oberoi	0-1	31	2023
Nick de Firmian (2460) Drake Jenkins (2130)	1-0	55	2022
Nick de Firmian (2460) larsmandreassen (2204)	1-0	33	2022
Nick de Firmian (2496) Alexander Shabalov (2510)	0-1	48	2022
Nick de Firmian (2496) Dmitry Gurevich (2351)	0-1	58	2022
Nick de Firmian (2496) Gregory Kaidanov (2548)	0-1	29	2022
Nick de Firmian (2460) Achim Wild (2265)	0-1	37	2022
Nick de Firmian (2460) Heracles Elieser Carvalho (1895)	0-1	35	2022
Nick de Firmian (2460) UnknownMagician (2631)	0-1	39	2022

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