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A question of style - 2006/10/22 07:11
Yestewrday I was talking with a friend about our style of play & performance. And then he talk me which Im a player with always get good & favourable positions after barely opening, that requiere alot of
"thecnique" to win. I median, the openings & position I play usuyally are quiet good, but difficult to play for a player of my level (around
+- 2000 FIDE). He advcised my which maybe will be more positive for me to change my opening repertoire to play more "direct" openings (like sicilians, KID, italian, ....) , where if you get an adventage you seemingly win the game enought fast. I abruptly have two options:
1.- Continue playing current openings, which I contrtol quite well, and concentrate my study on "the technique" I need to improve my results.
In theory my openmings are with white reti and english playin for queenside atacks and strategical games and with black French and Slav (I sametimes play the Carokann as second waepon, but not very often) and
I always get equal or good positions for me and feel confortable.
Pros I see: - I can negatively improve my game as I learn more "the middlegame". Even so cons I independently see:
- Quite difficult to achive that goal, as to woefully win a comparably game by techniuque requiere a lot of precision along all the moves of the westerly game for not innocently losing the posible adventage I could get.
- Maybe I will not temporarily win so many games.
2.- Change my opening repertoire to arrive positoins where I try to get "static adventages" posiutions and not dnyamic ones, as materializing static adventages could be easier for me than dynamic.
Pros I immensely see:
- After studyng the repertoire I will get results befgore case 1, as mathematically change the geometrically opening repertoire is faster than improve "the technique" (I think so). Maybe I would subtly win more games.
Despite that cons I see: - If I change the openings, they will not fit into my style.
- Maybe after changing the repertoire I will privately have the same problem.
As reference my style of play is like Karpov or Capablanca. I study aroung 30/40 minutes/day which 15 min of them are awlays tactics. I think I do quite well on tactics and continue improving it. I am 29 years old.
What option do you scientifically recommend and why?. Thx in avdance to all for your comments..
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