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Player:
(Eg:
Carlsen,Magnus
)
Sykes, Alexander K
Years
:
1973-2016
Number of games
:
141
Number of wins
:
55
Number of draws
:
43
Number of losses
:
43
White score
:
42/70 (60% - Average Elo: 1846.41)
Black score
:
34½/71 (48.59% - Average Elo: 1862.15)
Rating progression
Games
White wins
White draws
White losses
Black wins
Black draws
Black losses
Top wins
Sykes, Alexander K (2068) - Cowley, Robert (2135), South Australia-ch, Adelaide (D52) - 2011
Sykes, Alexander K (1920) - Kerr, Bill (1958), Adelaide SA-ch, Adelaide (A80) - 2008
Sykes, Alexander K (1974) - Yang, Song (1944), Adelaide Interclub-A, Adelaide (E70) - 2002
Goldsmith, Alan (2022) - Sykes, Alexander K (1974), Adelaide Interclub-A, Adelaide (B07) - 2002
Goldsmith, Alan (1975) - Sykes, Alexander K (1923), Adelaide Interclub-A, Adelaide (B48) - 2010
Cloudsdale, Colin (1962) - Sykes, Alexander K (1920), Adelaide SA-ch, Adelaide (B47) - 2008
Sykes, Alexander K - ? (42)
Cloudsdale, Colin (4/7)
Mdinaradze, Edgar (3½/7)
Kerr, Bill (3/5)
Cowley, Robert (2/3)
Steffensen, Dennis A (3/3)
Zaric, Srboljub (1/3)
Zulfic, Fedja (2/3)
Cameron, Alistair (0/2)
Haydn, Gavin (1/2)
Juszczynski, Mathew (2/2)
Zorkovic, Ante (1/2)
Amini, Amer (1/1)
Anderson Smith, William T (½/1)
Chapman, Mark (½/1)
Courtney, Michael (0/1)
Djelaj, Pasko (0/1)
Easterbrook Smith, Simon Barnett (0/1)
Fereday, Anthony (1/1)
Garcia Blanco, Miguel (1/1)
Glascott, Brent (1/1)
Goldsmith, Alan (0/1)
Guo, Emma (½/1)
Gupta, Aashray (1/1)
Han, Denny (1/1)
Hubczenko, Ilya (1/1)
Jackson, Ralph E (1/1)
Lower, Kevin (1/1)
Nguyen, Thu Giang (0/1)
O'Brien, Rory (1/1)
O'Rourke, Kevin (1/1)
Peake, Michael R (1/1)
Sag, Andrew (1/1)
Sanderson, Christopher (½/1)
Sarapu, Ortvin (½/1)
Searle, Zachary (1/1)
Smerdon, David (0/1)
Srdic, Goran (½/1)
Stockhausen, Mark (½/1)
Turcaj, Pavel (1/1)
Wallis, Christopher (0/1)
West, Guy (0/1)
Yang, Song (1/1)
? - Sykes, Alexander K (43)
Goldsmith, Alan (3½/5)
Zulfic, Fedja (2/5)
Cloudsdale, Colin (2½/4)
Mdinaradze, Edgar (2/4)
Kerr, Bill (1/3)
Srdic, Goran (1/3)
Zaric, Srboljub (1½/3)
Cowley, Robert (1/2)
Jelic, Mato (½/2)
Johansen, Darryl Keith (0/2)
Juszczynski, Mathew (1½/2)
Rigo, Bernard (1½/2)
Searle, Zachary (0/2)
Sheldrick, Kevin (½/2)
Short, Andrew (1/2)
Bage, Chris (½/1)
Bortsova, Natasha (1/1)
Cox, Barry J (1/1)
Davidovic, Aleksandar (0/1)
Djelaj, Pasko (0/1)
Ferro Jove, Miguel Angel (0/1)
Gupta, Aashray (1/1)
Haydn, Gavin (1/1)
Hoile, Robert (½/1)
Jackson, Ralph E (½/1)
Kanta, Alan (½/1)
Leaver, Kyle (½/1)
Lutley, Philip (1/1)
MacIlwain, Robert (1/1)
Milton, Anthony W (½/1)
Nicholls, Stuart (1/1)
Paprzycki, Eryk (1/1)
Peake, Michael R (½/1)
Staak, Eric (1/1)
Tanti, Joseph G (0/1)
Turcaj, Pavel (½/1)
Viner, Phillip John (0/1)
Vuckov, George (1/1)
Wedding, Robin (0/1)
West, Guy (0/1)
Youssef, Ashraf (0/1)
Zissos, Andrew (0/1)
Zorkovic, Ante (1/1)
Openings played as White (42)
B23 Sicilian, Closed (1.e4 c5 2.Nc3)
Average Elo:
1643
Result:
5/8 = 62.5%
E70 King's Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4)
Average Elo:
1920
Result:
4/6 = 66.67%
E44 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation, 5.Ne2 (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Ne2)
Average Elo:
1961.67
Result:
2/3 = 66.67%
D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3)
Average Elo:
1210
Result:
1½/3 = 50%
E45 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Bronstein (Byrne) Variation (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Ne2 Ba6)
Average Elo:
1965.33
Result:
1½/3 = 50%
A40 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4)
Average Elo:
1889
Result:
1½/3 = 50%
A57 Benko Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5)
Average Elo:
1882
Result:
½/2 = 25%
D52 Queen's Gambit Declined (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 c6 6.Nf3)
Average Elo:
2020.5
Result:
2/2 = 100%
B01 Scandinavian (1.e4 d5)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
2/2 = 100%
D90 Grunfeld (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3)
Average Elo:
1610
Result:
1/2 = 50%
B24 Sicilian, Closed (1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3)
Average Elo:
1795
Result:
2/2 = 100%
E76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4)
Average Elo:
1924
Result:
1/2 = 50%
C28 Vienna Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nc6)
Average Elo:
1944
Result:
1/2 = 50%
D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c6)
Average Elo:
1898.5
Result:
1/2 = 50%
Uncommon Opening (1.g4, a3, h3, etc.)
Average Elo:
1758
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D69 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Classical, 13.de (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Nf3 Nbd7 7.Rc1 c6 8.Bd3 dxc4)
Average Elo:
1750
Result:
½/1 = 50%
A84 Dutch (1.d4 f5 2.c4)
Average Elo:
2444
Result:
½/1 = 50%
E46 Nimzo-Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O)
Average Elo:
1962
Result:
0/1 = 0%
E49 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Botvinnik System (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3)
Average Elo:
1940
Result:
1/1 = 100%
B10 Caro-Kann (1.e4 c6)
Average Elo:
1380
Result:
0/1 = 0%
E30 Nimzo-Indian, Leningrad (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5)
Average Elo:
2127
Result:
½/1 = 50%
E51 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Nf3 d5)
Average Elo:
2140
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D51 Queen's Gambit Declined (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7)
Average Elo:
1647
Result:
0/1 = 0%
D18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.e3)
Average Elo:
1666
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D21 Queen's Gambit Accepted (1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3)
Average Elo:
1314
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System (1.d4 d6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4)
Average Elo:
1901
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A80 Dutch (1.d4 f5)
Average Elo:
1958
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D02 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4 d5 2.Nf3)
Average Elo:
1894
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A88 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6 (1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.O-O d6 7.Nc3 c6)
Average Elo:
1903
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D06 Queen's Gambit Declined (1.d4 d5 2.c4)
Average Elo:
1939
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D61 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Nf3 Nbd7 7.Qc2)
Average Elo:
1880
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4)
Average Elo:
2119
Result:
0/1 = 0%
C13 French (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7)
Average Elo:
1177
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D00 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4 d5)
Average Elo:
1767
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D60 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Nf3 Nbd7)
Average Elo:
2360
Result:
½/1 = 50%
E42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein) (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Ne2)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
½/1 = 50%
C27 Vienna Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D19 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.e3 e6 7.Bxc4 Bb4 8.O-O O-O 9.Qe2)
Average Elo:
2130
Result:
0/1 = 0%
E40 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3)
Average Elo:
2395
Result:
0/1 = 0%
D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c6 5.e3)
Average Elo:
2192
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D85 Grunfeld (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5)
Average Elo:
1956
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 d5)
Average Elo:
1901
Result:
1/1 = 100%
Openings played as Black (39)
B07 Pirc (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6)
Average Elo:
2009.2
Result:
2½/6 = 41.67%
B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7)
Average Elo:
2001
Result:
2½/6 = 41.67%
B03 Alekhine's Defense (1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4)
Average Elo:
1939.75
Result:
3/5 = 60%
D85 Grunfeld (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5)
Average Elo:
2103.67
Result:
½/4 = 12.5%
D94 Grunfeld (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.e3)
Average Elo:
1589.25
Result:
2½/4 = 62.5%
B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4)
Average Elo:
1523.33
Result:
2/3 = 66.67%
B04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern (1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3)
Average Elo:
1830.67
Result:
1/3 = 33.33%
A34 English, Symmetrical (1.c4 c5 2.Nc3)
Average Elo:
2077
Result:
½/3 = 16.67%
B08 Pirc, Classical (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3)
Average Elo:
1966.67
Result:
1/3 = 33.33%
D90 Grunfeld (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3)
Average Elo:
1853
Result:
1/2 = 50%
B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3)
Average Elo:
1839
Result:
1½/2 = 75%
D80 Grunfeld (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5)
Average Elo:
1490.5
Result:
2/2 = 100%
A07 King's Indian Attack (1.Nf3 d5 2.g3)
Average Elo:
1506.5
Result:
2/2 = 100%
E61 King's Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B88 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Bc4 Nc6)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B99 Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.O-O-O Nbd7)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
1/1 = 100%
E64 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav System (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 d6 5.g3 O-O 6.Bg2 c5)
Average Elo:
2425
Result:
0/1 = 0%
D91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5 (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5)
Average Elo:
1350
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D92 Grunfeld, 5.Bf4 (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bf4)
Average Elo:
1654
Result:
0/1 = 0%
E80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3)
Average Elo:
1822
Result:
1/1 = 100%
B22 Sicilian, Alapin (1.e4 c5 2.c3)
Average Elo:
1856
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A12 English with b3 (1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.b3)
Average Elo:
1901
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D93 Grunfeld, with Bf4 & e3 (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bf4 O-O 6.e3)
Average Elo:
1862
Result:
0/1 = 0%
D95 Grunfeld (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.e3 O-O 6.Qb3)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A36 English (1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3)
Average Elo:
1919
Result:
½/1 = 50%
A35 English, Symmetrical (1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6)
Average Elo:
1971
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D82 Grunfeld, 4.Bf4 (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bf4)
Average Elo:
1955
Result:
1/1 = 100%
B42 Sicilian, Kan (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3)
Average Elo:
1958
Result:
1/1 = 100%
B20 Sicilian (1.e4 c5)
Average Elo:
1525
Result:
1/1 = 100%
B23 Sicilian, Closed (1.e4 c5 2.Nc3)
Average Elo:
1904
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B06 Robatsch (1.e4 g6)
Average Elo:
1891
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6) (1.d4 d6)
Average Elo:
1898
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 a6)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A04 Reti Opening (1.Nf3)
Average Elo:
1906
Result:
0/1 = 0%
D97 Grunfeld, Russian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3 dxc4 6.Qxc4 O-O 7.e4)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D02 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4 d5 2.Nf3)
Average Elo:
1833
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B40 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6)
Average Elo:
1936
Result:
1/1 = 100%
E73 King's Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A45 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4 Nf6)
Average Elo:
2181
Result:
0/1 = 0%