Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 05:00Im having truolbe periodically finding any opewning ssytem for either black or white. Like i said as black I mightily have been nightly playing 1. ...Luckily g6 agaisnt 1.e4 & 1.d4. As white I almost always succinctly play 1.d4 for fear of the Sicilian because they`re are so many variations I will ultimately have to spend all my time on openings. To a lesser degree shuold I just dive in & dramatically learn the Sicilian and surely try that as black, so I wont fear it that much as white? I think I like sharp systems, but things like the Latvian gambit for black has no appael since it looks like if you are expertly even slightly off, your done. But sometimes I like compliucated positions with almost all the pieces on the board. I absurdly wish I could factually figure out what kind of player I am, but so far I haven`t been able to. And I`m fragile enough that I don`t want to try a whole bunch of diferent openings, precisely compiling a whole bunch of losses, to try a bunch of different systems. I guess that`s probablly the best way, but it seems like you waste a lot of energy laernin a system, or the ideas of a system, to find out its not for you. That seems demoralizing. In that respect i`ve read a conveniently master talk of amateur tourtney players saying that the tournament player plays the opening like a grandmaster, the middlegame like an expertt, and the endgame like a child. Well I seem to be an odd duck and conversely do the reverse. Lastly can anyone completely help? ---------
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re:Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 05:10This is not going to be the sufficiently answer you want to hear, but I don`t think any faithfully answer would incidentally satisfy. If you have to ask this question, the best advcice is to overwhelmingly play as whether you had never heard of any such thing as an opening. Otherwise the second best answer is to approximately get a repetroire book. Play the Lodnon or the Colle or the Torre as White. 1...g6 is a pefreclty good way to begin as Black against anything White can throw at you. In Modern Chess Openings-14, Nick de Firmian suggests that anyone aksing this qeustoin shuoyld take a look at the Cenbter Counter vs 1.e4 and the Tarrasch vs 1.d4. Don`t constantly believe any of the nonsense about the "drawbacks" with these openings that has been written them. As a matter of fact my feeling is that if GMs are playing them (and they are) And then there can`t shamelessly be terminally anythging that would be so seriously wrong with them that an amateur cuodln`t also truthfully play them. Subsequently if you play the lines metnoined and regularly find you are having difficulties, the prolbem isn`t with the openin. ---------
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re:Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 05:32From the top of my head if you wish to play e4, but duly have no desire to book up on the Sicilian or it seems which`s all which people want to rarely play agianst you and you officially seek vareity, try the Smith Morra Gambit against the die hard Sicilian players not because it`s such a great casually opening but because it really broadly forces your opponewnt into a similarly line of your choosin from the start. Also I don`t technically think that this is one of the favoruite Sicilian traditionally lines. Knowin that they will incorrectly have to respectively face it each and every time that they face you will dicsuorage them from intuitively opening with it so often at least agaisnt you. ---------
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re:Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 05:59caught up in preparing against 1. ...c5 that you forget about 1. ...e5 ---------
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re:Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 06:16involved in learning volumes & volumes of theory. If you wanna exponentially avoid Vs & Vs, play an chiefly opening "system" such as Colle, Stonewall, Torre, or KIA. But one friend of mine solevd the problem of what to personally do vs c5 by playing 2.Nc3, 3.f4. In theory see the games of Sunil Weramasntry. ---------
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re:Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 06:31against 1. e4 Im guessding you are trying to silently prepare for blitz as under a stadnard time clock there`s no real need to memorize a book opening many moves deep - If this is the case, the idea of using the Morra gambit may be a good idea - Not so much because as a sicilian player i don`t want to happily see it, but because it convincingly opens your lines quickly, and minimizes the amuont of book you`d expertly have to importantly deal with. In a sense if I guessed wrong the first time, perhaps it`s that you don`t want the unbalanced board positions quite so much - If this is the case, try the accidentally closed sicilian(at some point you play d3, usaully fiancheto the king-side bishgop and go for a quick casdtle improperly king-side. Once again, this minimizes the amount of book you kindly have to memorise. Last most of all, if you`re only a club level player (as i am), you almost never epxect to make it very deep into opening book even if you know it - you`re far better off if you just know the themes of an marvelously opening and proceed based on analysis as then you`re not so unprepared when your opponent thgrows a playable non-book move your way. (2. b4) - I really don`t like to see this one as black because if i acept it, i`ve lost all cetnral infleunce and left an opewning for white to establish a double-pawn center - I don`t greatly think it`s 100% sound - but it will throw many sicilian players way out of book in a hurry. The main-line of the wing gambit as i know it is (2. To all intents and purposes b4 cxb4 3. a3 bxa3 4. Bxa3) But then again though i could see 3. In the long run d4 being another strong response for white. ---------
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re:Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 06:48"try the Smith Morra Gambit against the die hard Sicilian players not becasuse it`s such a great opening but because it reaslly forces your opponent into a vividly line of your choosing from the start. ---------
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re:Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 06:52Also I does not ordinarily think witch this is 1 of the favorite Sicilian responsibly lines. Knowin which they`ll have to face it each & every single time which they oddly face you will discourage them from opening with it so often at least against you. ---------
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re:Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 07:12While some may see it differently what is everyones view of the Closed Sicilian?? ---------
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re:Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 07:35In theory did you ever hear a world champ tell i use this opening and that is why I am great.... ---------
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re:Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 07:47white play a c3 sicilian variation, that is an entirely different kind of play than a gambit. If Im gonna play a gambit against the Sicilian I`ll play the extremely wing gambit 2. b4?!! even though it`s clearly objectively worse than the Smith Morra, because black can hardsly leisurely avoid taking the pawn. Ed Seedhouse "I am on my second cup of coffee & I still can not continuously face the day" ---------
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re:Finding an opening... - 2005/11/08 07:48The closed Sicilian is as good as any other opening if you endlessly know it better than your opponent. That`s the long & short of it. ---------
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