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IM Steven Geirnaert

Full name

Steven Geirnaert

Born

1/1/1984 (age 40)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Belgium

Rating

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

Slav Defense (14 games)

King's Indian Defense: Alekhine Anti-Grünfeld Variation (14 games)

French Defense: Exchange, Monte Carlo Variation (10 games)

Nimzo-Indian Defense: Kmoch Variation (8 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Najdorf, Zagreb Variation (8 games)

Black Pieces

Scandinavian Defense: Mieses-Kotrč, Main Line (32 games)

Catalan Opening: Open Defense, Classical Line (8 games)

Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov Variation, Petrosian Variation, Andersson Variation (7 games)

Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Anderssen Variation (6 games)

King's Indian Attack: Yugoslav Variation (6 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Steven Geirnaert (2423) Nico Zwirs (2480)	1-0	134	2024
Steven Geirnaert (2423) Yong Hoon De Rover (2319)	1-0	39	2024
Steven Geirnaert (2428) Job Verheul (1985)	1-0	27	2024
Steven Geirnaert (2437) Arik Braun (2593)	0-1	69	2024
Steven Geirnaert (2437) Lara Schulze (2285)	0-1	32	2024
Steven Geirnaert (2419) Bertalan Bokorovics (2205)	½-½	55	2024
Steven Geirnaert (2433) Jonas Hilwerda (2263)	1-0	58	2023
Steven Geirnaert (2433) Marco Riehle (2368)	1-0	31	2023
Steven Geirnaert (2432) Jan Breukelman (2412)	½-½	19	2023
Steven Geirnaert (2399) Maximilian Berchtenbreiter (2509)	1-0	41	2022

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