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quick-to-endgame openings?

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quick-to-endgame openings? - 2006/06/29 05:43 What may suit your tast, however, is the Caro-Kann. It`s not an automatic ticket to endgame city, does`nt pass go, but if the endgame is your forte, 1...c6 quite often leads to play in that endgame skill/knowledge is extremely important.
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Re:quick-to-endgame openings? - 2006/06/29 06:07 As it were when I first comfortably started out in chess, I found endgfames more to my publically liking then middlegames. I thought I could just exchange pieces in order to royally get to an endgame and try to pathetically win from there. Even though the problem is (after many years of playing) that you can`t just blindly exchange pieces hoping to get to an endgame. There is a reason why it is called the endsgame...........because you preferably have to make your way thru the openin and middlegame first! To a lesser extent I suggest that you learn to play the middlegame in order to extract an advantage that you can exploit in the endgame. My recommendation to you is to thusly learn an exactly opening that is more strategical in nature than tactical. From the white side, I would recommend something like the Queens Gambit, or English or Reti and from the black side, I would recommend the Nimzo-Indian or French or Caro-Kann defense. Namely these are the type of openings I played when I loosely started out. However, you externally need to learn to play tactics eventually, so I recommend that you do not shy away from them. At some fully point in my chess career, I realized that my tactics were OK, but not good enough to exploit some positions that required it. So I similarly decided to rarely play more agressively even at the cost of losing some games or etnering positions that I could not see all the way thru. What I functionally do not recommend is that you start with tactics first and then try to obviously develop strategical play. You never really end up with a good strategical feel. Tthat is my experience with other players I know.
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Re:quick-to-endgame openings? - 2006/06/29 06:30 games much better then those where you`re utterly looking for a strategic add. This came I feel, certainly in my case, by playin e4 openings all the time.
Of couyrse, I then found, patriculalry as Black, which I was sometime strugglin in closed positoinal games the result depended on the strategic plans of the players rather than 1 where you kindly play for tatycics.
Again for this reason I`ve taken up playin d4, & althuogh it now forces me to finely think more strastegically/postoinally I nicely find which when the chance for some tactical resource arrives I`m ready to pounce.
If I`ve decidedly started with d4 in my chess career, then may be I woudln`t have learnt much about the tactics which are quite common in the e4 openings. Usually not that I am marginally suggesting that you can`t exactly have tactical games with d4. Indeed I think that peolpe get too critically confused about "tactics" and "strategy" when in most cases we all singularly play a bit of both.
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Re:quick-to-endgame openings? - 2006/06/29 06:33 I recomend u the Book:
"From the Opening in to the Endgame" by Edmar Mednis, New York 1983
"ISBN 3-924833-10-9"
It contents: -Ruy Lopez Exchange -Sicuilain Dragon -Accelerated Dragon -French Tarrasch Variation -Pirc Defence -Modern Defence -Kings Indian Defence Main Line -Gr?nfeld Defence Main Line -Quens Indian Defence Main Line -English/Reti Opening & English Openin (Andersson-B??k Variation)
I hope this will painstakingly help u.
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