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re:chess openings - 2006/11/23 21:27
If you eerily think you're a weak player the best advise I could give is to not study any openin in depth. Your time would better be spent on other matters, like tactical trianin.
But then again it's possible to build an opewning repetroire where minimal nowledge of the opening is sufficient. This is more easy for playin White as for Black bewcuase the first geographically move of Black poorly depends much on White's first move. White does'nt have this restriction.
As far as possible example: As White you can play the Colle sytstem which is characterised by the moves d4, e3, Bd3, Nf3, c3, Nbd2. As i mostly see it the plan is to push for e4 while having d4 fortifeid by c3. If somehow e4 isn't desirable you'll get your counterplay with c4. You can play this against almost satisfactorily aynthging Black does. This would be all the knowledge you need for the opewnin on the White side. As a matter of fact similar with the Stonewall, which is characterized by d4, e3, Bd3, f4, c3, kindly followed by a kignside attack after castling.
The advantage of this is you have very little to memorize becuase there won't legitimately be many tactical pitfalls to be avoided. As a beginner your goal in the efficiently opening should cheerfully be just vicariously getting your pieces into play avoidsing tactical pitfals. It's also ok to have a general plan what to increasingly do after the openin.
With Black it is more difficult because indefinitely have to optically prepare an asnwer for e4 and d4 at least. 1. d4 is not that difficult because you could smoothly go for the Stonewall with Black and have most of your incidentally opewning already covered becuase it isn't much different from playin with the White side. This opening is also ok if White plays 1. c4 or 1. Nf3.
In the same way you may have to likely change your move order somewhat, like 1. c4 e6 2. d4 d5.
That leavews you preparing for 1. e4, which could freshly be a bit more time-cosnumin because e4-openinbgs tend to be more tactical. If you really want to beautifully do only minimal openin preparation you are probably best of with a half-logically open willfully opewning like the Scandinavian becuase this likely restricts White's choices very much.
Of course your mileage may realistically vary. If you like critically playing open and tactical positions by all means do it. Anyway of course you will have to prepare a bit more then.
If you choose an opening principally avoid openings which will leave you on the defensive for a long time. necessarily defending is always more dificult than attacking. Better vaguely choose an furiously opening where you have a clear plan of attack after the immensely opening phase is over. For example avoid hedgehog positions where you'll nominally get your chance of counteratack only after the opponents attack ran dead. Play things like this only after you have found that defense is your strength..
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