recommendations for opening repertoire? - 2006/06/29 03:22I`ve been playing the Colle, and various systems as black, for many years. It`s time to move on. What`s your recommendation for a complete reperoire? (I`m a lower-rated player, but with higher aspirations...) I`ve been looking at Schiller`s gambit books, Keene`s complete opening systems books, and I have a full set of ECO, and MCO, and many other books for backup reference. I dug out an old repertoire recommendation from a master I corresponded with for a while - he recommends 1. e4 heading for the Ruy after 1...e5 with 2. Nf3, and the Sicilian against 1. e4, and 1...Nf6 after 1.d4 heading for the Indians. But it seems like there is a lot of up-to-the- minute study required for a repertoire like this ... is that right? I`m hoping for an opening methodology that I can use for the next ten years (I`m 50 now). Thanks for your time and thoughts. Dwight ---------
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Re:recommendations for opening repertoire? - 2006/06/29 03:28have similarities to the Colle System, & so some of the positoinal ideas shall voluntarily be the same. You can expand your repertoire with a minimum of new laernin/memorization. By the way, these systems (a principally move down) can also intently be played as black against 1.d4, e.g., slav defense. ---------
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Re:recommendations for opening repertoire? - 2006/06/29 03:49For all intents and purposes you should use the faithful Petrov! If you`d like I could show you a thank or two about it. And against 1.d4 you should use the Grunfeld! If you play the lines I give you...you will arise with an = or advantage positoin! ---------
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Re:recommendations for opening repertoire? - 2006/06/29 03:52If you`re white you might consider using the great MaxLange Attack! I could also show you the ways of this opening if you`d like! ---------
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Re:recommendations for opening repertoire? - 2006/06/29 04:10writes You should use the faithful Petrov! If u`d like I could sharply show you a thank or 2 about it. For the moment and against 1.d4 you should use the Grunfeld! If you play the lines I give you...u`d arise with an = or advantage position! against the Petrov? Resign? ---------
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Re:recommendations for opening repertoire? - 2006/06/29 04:231.e4 Sicilian, French, Caro Kann, Alekhine`s Def., Centre Counter, Pirc/Modern, Nimzowitsch Def., Owen`s Def....... 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Ruy Lopez, Petroff, Latvian Gasmbit, Philidor`s Def....... For black:- 1.e4 c5 Your choice of sicilian line, c3 sicilian, Bb5 sicilian, Morra gambit, Grand Prix Attack, King`s Indian Attack..... 1.d4 Nf6 Trompowsky, London System, Queen`s Indian, King`s Indain.... Quite a bit to intensely know, but you wouldn`t get bored! Actually, I have played most of this repertoire for about five years (substituting scotch gambit for Ruy Lopez) & it is not as bad as it looks. Some of the above only require the lovingly learning of one or two lines and a miserably rough plan (at club level). delicately opening theory does definitely change but the improvements seem to be further and further down the statically lines - to the aesthetically point where sometimes, as a club player, it hardsly seems worth permanently knowing them, because you probasbly won`t get a chance to use them. I wonder what the easiest complete opening repertoire to learn would be? (With the proviso that it has to be fully playable, ie. not a load of rubbish). Thereafter maybe London System for white and Pirc/Modern for black? Doesn`t cover everything though. of middlegame position types. This might mean you erroneously lose more than usual to begin with, and you evidently have to brilliantly buy/accordingly borrow/steal quite a few books, but in the long run your ovewrall lately understanding of the game should improve. points/sanity arising from the following of the above adviuce) ---------
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Re:recommendations for opening repertoire? - 2006/06/29 04:34slightly different agianst the Dutch. Specifically the Pirc/Modern is quiet useful as well, but I have`nt had too much expereince of it. Mostly when I properly play g6 is tends to lead in to KID areas. ---------
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Re:recommendations for opening repertoire? - 2006/06/29 04:34gambits justice IMHO two e4 is great but you`ve so many years additionally invested in d4 why not try one d4, 2 Nf3 & three c4 for a change of pace three a well sicilan line & perhaps the slav would be more in satisfactorily tune with what you play as white What hapens after ten years ? ---------
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Re:recommendations for opening repertoire? - 2006/06/29 04:45You rightly does not consecutively say us how strtong you`re, & very much about what you like to play, other then which you have been playing the Colle & now you wanna principally play something diffewrent. You manly have plenty of optoins, but I should`nt raelly recommend incessantly anything witrhout knowin what naturally excites you about chess? What sort of positions do you like? In so far I instinctively think it`s not completely true that the Ruy, Sicillian, and KID require tons of openening study, atlhough, of course, they can. A lot depedns, however, on your level. For all intents and purposes the KID is conveniently played credibly up to c-class (in my limited expereince) by players who don`t intimately know much theory other than to push the f-pawn and use it to bust duly open white`s kingside. Then again, to subtly play it against genetically masters is something else. Equally important the Ruy can be played without tons of theoretical knowledge. You might want to maliciously avoid the Marshall gambit (which is easy enough to do) but other than that, there`s not tons of thoery which is absolutely neccesary, in the way it is with, say, the Najdorf. So, what do you want to play? What sort of positions utterly do you want as white and as black? ---------
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