GM James Tarjan

Full name

James Tarjan

Born

Jan 1, 1952 (age 73)‎

Place of birth

Federation

United States

Total Games 729

41% Win

35% Draw

24% Loss

As White 364

48% Win

32% Draw

20% Loss

As Black 365

35% Win

39% Draw

26% Loss

James Tarjan Chess Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Neuris Delgado Ramirez (2487) James Tarjan (2308) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Bayreuth Variation	1-0	38	2024
James Tarjan (2355) Doug Eckert (2259) 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 c6 English Opening: Carls-Bremen, Keres Variation	1-0	43	2023
James Tarjan (2306) Dylan Tang (2148) 1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 d5 English Opening: Neo-Catalan Defense Declined	1-0	42	2023
James Tarjan (2355) Henry Deng (2163) 1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 Nf6 English Opening: Caro-Kann Defensive System	0-1	49	2023
James Tarjan (2306) Lazaro Bruzon Batista (2606) 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. Nd5 a5 English Opening: Reversed Sicilian, Kramnik-Shirov Counterattack	0-1	36	2023
James Tarjan (2355) Patrick Angelo Tolentino (1899) 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense	½-½	54	2023
James Tarjan (2306) Rose Atwell (2031) 1. c4 e6 2. g3 d5 3. Nf3 Nf6 Catalan Opening: Closed	½-½	29	2023
Seth Homa (2219) James Tarjan (2355) 1. d4 f5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 e6 Queen's Pawn Opening: Horwitz Defense	1-0	29	2023
Samrug Narayanan (2297) James Tarjan (2355) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Keres, Breyer, Zaitsev Hybrid Variation	1-0	70	2023
Jashith Karthi (2026) James Tarjan (2306) 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 Nbd7 Old Indian Defense: Ukrainian, Two Knights Variation	0-1	61	2023
Nitish Nathan (2104) James Tarjan (2355) 1. d4 f5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 e6 Dutch Defense	½-½	28	2023
Sricharan Pullela (1820) James Tarjan (2355) 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. cxd5 exd5 Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Slav Defense, Accelerated Move-Order	½-½	9	2023
Patrick Liu (2175) James Tarjan (2306) 1. d4 f5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 Dutch Defense: Classical, Rubinstein Variation	½-½	59	2023
Rohan Rajaram (2179) James Tarjan (2306) 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 Catalan Opening: Closed, Botvinnik Variation	½-½	39	2023
James Tarjan (2381) Melikset Khachiyan (2474) 1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 Nf6 Grünfeld Defense: Burille Variation	1-0	47	2021
James Tarjan (2381) Larry Christiansen (2567) 1. c4 e5 2. g3 c6 3. d4 exd4 English Opening: King's English Variation	0-1	56	2021
James Tarjan (2381) Joel Benjamin (2506) 1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bb4 English Opening: Carls-Bremen, Smyslov System	½-½	34	2021
James Tarjan (2381) Alex Yermolinsky (2478) 1. c4 e6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 Nf6 English Opening: Agincourt Defense	½-½	34	2021
Gregory Kaidanov (2547) James Tarjan (2381) 1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 Dutch Defense: Fianchetto, Ilyin-Zhenevsky, Stonewall Variation	1-0	38	2021
Alexander Shabalov (2521) James Tarjan (2381) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Closed, Martinez Variation	0-1	38	2021
Igor Novikov (2554) James Tarjan (2381) 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense	½-½	43	2021
Alexander Fishbein (2417) James Tarjan (2381) 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 Queen's Gambit Declined: Neo-Orthodox, Anti-Tartakower Variation	½-½	62	2021
Leonid M Sokolin (2497) James Tarjan (2381) 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 Caro-Kann Defense: Exchange Variation	½-½	68	2021
James Tarjan (2373) Alex Yermolinsky (2490) 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. d4 d5 Grünfeld Defense: Exchange Variation	½-½	51	2020
James Tarjan (2373) Emilio Cordova (2588) 1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5 English Opening: Reversed Sicilian, Closed	½-½	25	2020

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