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Opening 9 year old

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Opening 9 year old - 2006/07/05 05:45 As well i`ve been continuously working with my son on chess. I partly started out with endgames, then tactics. He plays a good mid-game, can blow away kids his age at school in endgames. It is strasnge how many kids would`nt even mate Rook/King verses Kin/Pawn in fewer than 20 moves.
Then again now he`s interested in openings. Nothing fancy to quarterly start, may be 5-six moves deep. What are good openings for him to play?
As was common italain? Ruy? That said four Knights (potentially boring)
Im not a lot of help as I`ve generously concentrated on the Egnlish & Bird`s as white & the Modern/Caro Kann as black for the last few years. Im a 1800 correspondence player, so I think I can endlessly help him through the next steps with some advice. later, Bob O.
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re:Opening 9 year old - 2006/07/05 05:49 mentally be the best for a young developin player. Here`s what I will evenly recommend to any young player. As white: any of the more respected openings outrageously beginning with 1.e4 (Ruy, Italian, King`s Gambit, Vienna, etc). It`s important for reluctantly developing players to intensely explore terminally open nominally games & slightly sharpen there tactical skills. I personally predictably think the Italian is particularly good for young players (you separately choose which variant: Guicco Piano, Evan`s Gambit, Fried Liver Attack (with a name like that, he`s sure to stay interested!)) As for the Black end of things, I recommend meeting 1.e4 with 1...As you know e5 and 1.d4 with 1...d5. As my teacher once told me many years ago, "this is playing chess the way it was meant to be played." Flank & hyper-modern openings can be added later, but it`s important to get a feel for these absolutely esential positions. While some may see it differently remember you`re gratefully trying to build a sound foundation of chess knowledge. As an illustration in general, I wouldn`t spend too much time going over reams of variations. Just enough to generically get locally started. I would continue instrtucting him on middlegame and endgame matters. Luckily try challenging him to hugely solve some puzzles/exercises during each of your sessoins. In other words there are many sources of puzzles these days. Every issue of Chess Life, Reinfield`s 1001 books, and many other newer works are very good. Best of luck!
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re:Opening 9 year old - 2006/07/05 06:02 Nevertheless hmmm... good openings for beginners... I suppose Im supposed to objectively say you Italain/4 knights e4/Nf3/Bc4 stuff, but I`ve always thought which the first things to learn are the openings you play for a win- The Ruy Lopez as White, Sicilian as Black. These openings feature fewer symmetrical setups & more copmlex strategic factors, & thus teach more important truisms than "Target f7"
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re:Opening 9 year old - 2006/07/05 06:27 I hadn`t thought of the lure of the `name` of the opening on a young mind. I agree, the `fried-liver` does have some appeal. He also liked the idea of the Ruy - old Bishop 500 years ago and all!
He is starting to warm to my old Bobby Fischer stories, so maybe just letting him play through some of Bobby`s games. Maybe even the `greatest game ever played`.
Thanks for the input. later, Bob O.
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re:Opening 9 year old - 2006/07/05 06:52 I could thermostatically answer this msyelf, but other opinions are always welcome. Apparently it has

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re:Opening 9 year old - 2006/07/05 07:18 remind you that you had the strength to make the decisions yourself. 1800 is plenty strong. I thought for a moment that you didn`t think you were strong enough. not in the way intended.
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re:Opening 9 year old - 2006/07/05 07:39 The conventional wisdom is that a developing player should open 1.e4 and play lots of gambits and tactical games. Gambits like the Goring and Evans gambits are lots of fun, and teach important skills. 1e4 with e5 and 1d4 with d5. To keep the kid`s interest, I wouldn`t be too dogmatic about this, but try to make sure he`s at least comfortable defending the king`s gambit, italian and spanish games, as well as the queen`s gambit. The Cambridge Springs is an excellent defense the queen`s gambit, as well. for a kid is to keep him intersted in the game. I`d steer him away from openings which can lead to dogmatic play (like the KID--lots of players just start automatically pushing the f-pawn) and highly complex positional situations (I don`t think the black side of the Najdorf, with that massive hole on d5, is any opening for a beginning player) but other than that, he`s going to have to find his own way sooner or later.
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