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GM Ilmars Starostits

Full name

Ilmars Starostits

Born

1/1/1979 (age 45)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Latvia

Rating

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

Closed Sicilian Defense: Fianchetto Variation (84 games)

Closed Sicilian Defense (33 games)

Indian Game: Yusupov-Rubinstein System (16 games)

French Defense: Exchange Variation (14 games)

Four Knights Game: Gunsberg Variation (14 games)

Black Pieces

Slav Defense: Modern Line (38 games)

Owen's Defense (37 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Dragon, Belezky Line (36 games)

Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Variation (14 games)

Caro-Kann Defense: Modern Variation (11 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Ilmars Starostits (2360) Antonio Alvarez Pampillon (2107)	1-0	33	2024
Ilmars Starostits (2344) Zoubaier Amdouni (2151)	1-0	26	2024
Ilmars Starostits (2356) Milosz Szpar (2491)	0-1	43	2024
Ilmars Starostits (2360) Gleb Pidluznij (2374)	0-1	31	2024
Ilmars Starostits (2360) Julio Suarez Gomez (2492)	½-½	40	2024
Ilmars Starostits (2360) Qi Chen b (2481)	½-½	20	2024
Ilmars Starostits (2344) Amin Kabilov (2212)	½-½	50	2024
Ilmars Starostits (2344) Sameh Sadek (2269)	½-½	82	2024
Ilmars Starostits (2405) Cristian Silva Lucena (2293)	1-0	24	2023
Ilmars Starostits (2323) Michal Krasenkow (2434)	1-0	42	2023

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